Sex and Gender Bias as a Mechanistic Determinant of Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes
The Canadian journal of cardiology(2022)
摘要
Defined as a prejudice either for or against something, biases at the provider, patient, and societal level all contribute to differences in cardiovascular disease recognition and treatment, resulting in outcome disparities between sexes and genders. Provider bias in the under-recognition of female-predominant cardiovascular disease and risks might result in underscreened and undertreated patients. Furthermore, therapies for female-predominant phenotypes including nonobstructive coronary artery disease and heart failure with pre-served ejection fraction are less well researched, contributing to undertreated female patients. Conversely, women are less likely to seek urgent medical attention, potentially related to societal bias to put others first, which contributes to diagnostic delays. Furthermore, women are less likely to have discussions around risk factors for cor-onary artery disease compared with men, partially because they are
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Sex and gender bias,mitigating sex and gender bias in cardiovascular disease,sex and gender in cardiovascular disease
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