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The Importance of Gender Medicine in Clinical Trials and Heart Attack Misdiagnosis

Gender medicine is a recent development in the field of healthcare, driven by the recognition that men and women differ metabolically and in their response to drugs./nClinical trials often group men and women together, failing to account for the unique metabolic and functional differences between them./nThis approach overlooks the fact that women's hearts function differently from men's, leading to misdiagnosis and underrecognition of heart attack symptoms in women./nWomen are more likely than men to be discharged from the emergency room during a heart attack, as doctors struggle to identify their symptoms.

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