Diagnostic Evaluation: Gender Biases?

• Women hospitalized with CAD undergo fewer major diagnostic and therapeutic procedures than men

  • (NEJM 1991;325:221-5)

• Physicians pursue a less aggressive approach to CAD in women despite greater cardiac disability

  • (NEJM 1991; 325:226-30)

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Tratment of women with CAD has undergone a tremendous change in the past decade at least inpart due to these two articles published in the same issue of the NEJM… Tremendous press coverage.

Fortunately this woiuld no .longrer hold true.