The British Cardiovascular Society has produced a joint statement with their affiliates, regarding the importance of addressing the inequalities women heart patients encounter. The report outlines the problems, along with giving recommendations from each affiliate, to hopefully address the problems women heart patients face.
The report includes the patient perspective lead by a women expert by experience. The patient recommendations are in Figures 2 and 3 and Table 3.
Thank you for posting this.
that’s great!! I’m going to print it off and add it to my file for when I next encounter a difficulty, thanks for sharing with us xx
This makes for good reading, I’ve been saying that there was inequalities for years, through my own experience. It is about time that this was addressed.
thank you, always good to hear that attention is being focused on an issue many of us have been aware of for years
those of us with less common conditions which mostly affect women will be even more aware of the difficulty experienced when we try to get the right sort of attention and care - getting anyone to take our symptoms seriously being the first hurdle
Thank you- it's about time. I have several of the risks mentioned yet not one doctor has ever asked. One of them is what caused my mother to have heart failure and die in her 60s. The same thing killed her sister aged 21.
Not one Cardiologist has ever asked me about my pregnancies either.
Me neither; all 3 of us had pre eclampsia or worse. Only one young, newly qualified doctor at Urgent Care ever asked my family history. The nurse who was supposed to triage me when I had the heart attack didn't believe the paramedics because I wasn't grey or sweating or clutching my chest in pain. I just had indigestion and a tingling up my neck and down arm. It was 5 hours before BP and bloods were taken. Nurse just said "Do you want an aspirin?"
Just teaching everyone to recognise different symptoms would help for a start
Interesting but also depressing! I have heart valve issues and it says women are less likely to be referred for intervention despite similar mortality risk to men!!! Late referral in turn leads to worse outcomes... 2024 and women still getting a bum deal! It's truly frightening given the long waits anyway...
Let's hope this consensus document makes a difference.
Part of the problem seems to be an acceptance that there is a problem!
The High Risk List
British Heart Foundation 
Women doctors
Clopidogrel experience
How to not annoy the medical teams
