You can see how women are sometimes sent out of an emergency room with a prescription for valium and tums instead of being admitted and assessed for a heart attack. There are definite fluctuations in the stability of the heart's electrical activity and even in the immune system as a consequence of hormonal shifts. Another reason might be hypothyroidism. She should check with her physician. Iron supplements are important for premenopausal women who are periodically loosing blood through their menstrual flow.
Pregnant women have unique and very important needs for extra calcium and folic acid.
Whether this is reluctance on the part of the physician or on the part of the patient to opt for more aggressively intervention is still unclear. Furthermore, we need studies on why decisions are made for cardiac patients as they are, and whether the major part of the decision is the result of physician intervention or the patient's choice. In fact, some of the best physicians practicing gender-specific medicine are the pediatricians, who are very much aware of the many, many differences between boys and girls. One of the featured speakers will be Doctor George Lazarus, who will review some of the most interesting features of the unique characteristics of boys and girls. Attention-defecit disorder is overdiagnosed in boys and underdiagnosed in girls, according to Dr. George Lazarus.