The evaluation of chest pain in women often reveals differences in clinical care compared to men, particularly before a definitive diagnosis of coronary artery disease is established.
Highlights the critical need for appropriate evaluation of chest pain in women, noting that women are often treated differently from men when the diagnosis is not established.
The evaluation of chest pain is a critical step in the care of women with heart disease. It is a point at which women are likely to be treated differently from men,16 especially when the diagnosis has not been established. Among patients known to have coronary artery disease, differences in the care given the two sexes are much less sharp. Physicians may be puzzled about how to incorporate into clinical care new data on different patterns of treatment for men and women.In the study of coronary heart disease, women have often been excluded from clinical trials or studied . . .
Douglas et al. (Thu,) conducted a review in Chest pain and coronary heart disease. The evaluation of chest pain in women often reveals differences in clinical care compared to men, particularly before a definitive diagnosis of coronary artery disease is established.