English: The gender gap in heart disease we've heard about today. It's costing women's lives. And that groundbreaking report in 2019, 'Bias and biology: The heart attack gender gap', by the British Heart Foundation, really opened my eyes to what was happening, or what was not happening, in the treatment of heart disease in women: heart attacks in women being misdiagnosed as anxiety or panic attacks. It was spelt out to me in this way: cardiac specialists have traditionally been overwhelmingly men, so the needs of women amongst the speciality itself have been overlooked for too long. Migraine - I was talking to a group interested in pushing the agenda forward on migraine recently. It's far more common in women than in men; perhaps a third of women will experience migraine, compared with 13 per cent of men. There may be some underreporting by men, but the higher level among women is likely to be as a result of hormonal factors, genetic differences and so on. One hundred and eighty thousand women in Wales have asthma. Figures suggest that asthma kills twice as many women as men. This is a women's health issue that needs addressing. One charity has said that women have been failed by a lack of research into links between hormone changes and asthma. Asthma + Lung UK said that women are stuck in a cycle of being in and out of hospital and, in some cases, losing their lives because of a lack of research. Research in itself is an area where there needs to be a new focus on women. Russell George touched on this. Clinical trials have traditionally been focused at men, older men, and not enough women taking part. I can see that time is running out. We as parliamentarians today are making this demand to Government. Despite what it's promised, we're making that demand to insist that the promises made now are put into action. I know that a coalition of organisations has come together to put together its case for a women's health strategy, as we're calling for today. It's time to take action on this. We've talked a lot about health inequalities recently in this Senedd. This is yet another example of inequality, perhaps the most glaring of inequalities that we simply have to stamp out.
Welsh: Y bwlch rhwng y rhywiau mewn perthynas â chlefyd y galon y clywsom amdano heddiw. Mae'n costio bywydau menywod. Ac fe wnaeth yr adroddiad arloesol yn 2019, 'Bias and biology: The heart attack gender gap', gan Sefydliad Prydeinig y Galon, agor fy llygaid i'r hyn a oedd yn digwydd, neu'r hyn nad oedd yn digwydd, wrth drin clefyd y galon mewn menywod: trawiadau ar y galon mewn menywod yn arwain at ddiagnosis anghywir o orbryder neu byliau o banig. Cafodd ei wneud yn glir i mi yn y ffordd hon: yn draddodiadol mae'r mwyafrif llethol o arbenigwyr cardiaidd wedi bod yn ddynion, felly mae anghenion menywod o fewn yr arbenigedd ei hun wedi'u hanwybyddu'n rhy hir. Meigryn - roeddwn yn siarad â grŵp a oedd â diddordeb mewn gwthio'r agenda ar feigryn yn ei blaen yn ddiweddar. Mae'n llawer mwy cyffredin mewn menywod nag mewn dynion; efallai y bydd traean o fenywod yn profi meigryn, o'i gymharu â 13 y cant o ddynion. Efallai y bydd rhywfaint o danadrodd gan ddynion, ond mae'r lefel uwch ymhlith menywod yn debygol o ddeillio o ffactorau hormonaidd, gwahaniaethau genetig ac yn y blaen. Mae asthma ar 180,000 o fenywod yng Nghymru. Mae ffigurau'n awgrymu bod asthma yn lladd ddwywaith cymaint o fenywod â dynion. Mae'n broblem iechyd menywod y mae angen mynd i'r afael â hi. Mae un elusen wedi dweud bod menywod wedi cael cam yn sgil diffyg ymchwil i gysylltiadau rhwng newidiadau hormonaidd ac asthma. Dywedodd Asthma + Lung UK fod menywod yn cael eu dal mewn cylch o fod i mewn ac allan o'r ysbyty ac mewn rhai achosion, yn colli eu bywydau oherwydd diffyg ymchwil. Mae ymchwil ynddo'i hun yn faes lle mae angen canolbwyntio o'r newydd ar fenywod. Crybwyllodd Russell George hyn. Yn draddodiadol, mae treialon clinigol wedi canolbwyntio ar ddynion, dynion hŷn, heb ddigon o fenywod yn cymryd rhan. Gallaf weld bod amser yn brin. Rydym ni fel seneddwyr heddiw yn gwneud yr alwad hon ar y Llywodraeth. Er gwaethaf yr hyn y mae wedi'i addo, gwnawn yr alwad i fynnu bod yr addewidion a wnaed yn cael eu rhoi ar waith yn awr. Gwn fod cynghrair o sefydliadau wedi dod at ei gilydd i lunio ei hachos dros strategaeth iechyd menywod, fel y galwn amdani heddiw. Mae'n bryd gweithredu ar hyn. Rydym wedi siarad llawer am anghydraddoldebau iechyd yn y Senedd hon yn ddiweddar. Dyma enghraifft arall eto o anghydraddoldeb, yr anghydraddoldeb mwyaf amlwg o bosibl, a rhaid inni ei ddileu.