It doesn't mandate or make law. It simply informs and asks for endorsement. But behind all the whereases in this document is a collection of women's health statistics that have some bite. They make 61 percent of the nation's doctors' visits, buy 59 percent of all prescription drugs sold and make 70 to 90 percent of the health care decisions in the nation's households. In Government's background research.
Women die from cardiovascular disease more often than men.
But virtually all random trials on risks and treatments are performed on men, the group says. Heart disease generally goes undetected and untreated longer in women. While chest pains signal heart attacks in men, women heart attack sufferers are more likely to experience abdominal pain, nausea and fatigue. Nope, I never heard that either. According to an Archives of Internal Medicine report, men were 115 percent more likely than women to receive coronary artery bypass grafting and 86 percent more likely to get a heart transplant, and 34 percent more men than women receive angioplasty surgery.