Knowledge about heart disease in women simply has not been available because women were excluded from early heart research. Over the past decade, new studies have revealed that women's heart attacks manifest in unique and subtle ways. Also, it's been learned that women's risk factors are different. Having received little training in women's heart disease, doctors are unprepared to counsel women on prevention, to monitor them for risks, and to diagnose their heart disease accurately. Back in the '70s, he didn't consider that women got heart disease, because he didn't see them.
Statistics suggest the latter.
Since 1984, more women than men have died of cardiovascular diseases. Women don't even think about it and delay seeking help. Then, if the diagnosis is delayed you have a disaster on your hands. Jane Natale, a retired Warwick, R.I., banker, walked around for days not realizing she had had a heart attack. She had a stressful job and two brothers with heart disease, but she never considered herself at risk.