Dr. Betty Murray says cardiologists miss women's heart risk during menopause because they rely on research that excluded women before 1993. Doctors dismiss cardiac symptoms as just aging, ignoring how hormones affect the heart. She calls for risk assessments that account for sex and menopausal status.
separate recommendations by sex or menopausal status, which researchers now consider a huge evidence-based care failure. What does that mean? When you go to your cardiologist, he doesn't know jack shit about your menopausal status. He doesn't know jack shit about your hormones. He doesn't know jack shit about the impact of your hormones on your vascular system. And when he goes to treat you, He's using older studies that excluded women before 1993 to make decisions about your cardiovascular risk. Should never ever listen to somebody that says it's just part of aging. The data says otherwise.
