Do You Treat Women Differently than You Treat Men in Cardiaology? (0:34)
Heart disease onset and issues vary between men and women, so it makes sense that treatment would follow suit. In this video, HealthMaker Rita Redberg, MD, a cardiologist at UCSF Medical Center, elaborates on symptom and management differences.
Read Transcript
Yes and no. I mean in a lot of things women are similar to men, there are certainly differences and not just the fact that we women tend to get heart disease 10 years later, but that does play into a little more aggressive I think in testing for diagnosis of symptoms for heart disease so chest pain in women is a lot harder to diagnose and figure out if it's really a heart disease or if it's something else.
And so we tend to do a little more testing perhaps with a lower thresholds in women than in men.
Rita Redberg, MD, specializes in heart disease in women at UCSF Medical Center. She has a masters of science in health policy and administration from the London School of Economics and is a Robert Wood Johnson health policy fellow.
