What Are the Health Differences Between Women and Men

What Are the Health Differences Between Women and Men (0:16)

Add life expectancy and heart disease risk to the list of differences between men and women. In this video, HealthMaker Rita Redberg, MD, a cardiologist at UCSF Medical Center, elaborates on the topic.

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And there are lost of differences between women and men that we don't still understand, and there are certainly areas of ongoing research, but as you know women live longer than men a few years longer, we tend to get heart later.

Rita Redberg, MD

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About Rita Redberg, MD

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.

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