Julie Goldenberg is a journalist based in New York City. She was a former associate editor at AARP where she reported on aging in America. Her work has appeared in AARP the Magazine, AARP.org, and Forbes.
Women are more likely than men to die of complications from high-risk cardiovascular surgery, a new study finds.
Overall, about 15% of these patients experienced some complication following their procedure; a similar rate of complications was seen in men and women. But, of the overall group, nearly 11% of the women died of complications, compared with 8.6% of the men.
By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over."If anything, these results show how pervasive the problem is," said Dr. Catherine Wagner, a cardiac surgery resident at the University of Michigan and lead author of the study."This suggests there is a systemic problem contributing to the under-recognition and under-treatment of women's postoperative complications," Wagner told Live Science in an email.
Unconscious bias against women may be one possible explanation, he said. There's a tendency for medical providers to dismiss women's pain, which can delay, or even preclude, proper diagnosis and treatment. A 2022 study in the Journal of the American Heart Association found that young women who complained of chest pain had a 29% longer wait time for heart-attack evaluation than young men, for example.
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