Heart Disease Outcomes Gap Has (Recently) Narrowed

What: A study from Intermountain Health found that while heart-related death rates for women are still high, the gender gap is decreasing. Researchers looked at records of over 14,000 women and 26,000 men who had a coronary angiography between 2000 and 2019. When broken into five-year periods they saw the differences between men and women having major cardiac events narrowed, with no significant differences by sex from 2015 to 2019.

Key Line: “The reality is that women are different from men and need to be evaluated, diagnosed, and treated differently for heart disease,” said Kismet Rasmusson, NP, principal investigator of the study and a cardiovascular nurse practitioner in Intermountain Health’s Advanced Heart Failure Program. “While these findings show that we’ve made progress with the care of women in our local area, we still have a long way to go…”

Source: Intermountain Health