“Cardiovascular disease is the No. 1 cause of death among adults of both sexes in the United States. But this unadorned statistic does not capture the differences in how the disease unfolds in men and in women. “Most of what we know about diagnosis and treatment of heart disease comes from research done on middle-aged men, so we are extrapolating from that data,” says Dr. Nadita Scott, a cardiologist and co-director of the Corrigan Women’s Heart Health Program at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital.”

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