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Women are at a higher risk of dying from heart disease − in part because doctors don’t take major sex and gender differences into account

  • Written by Amy Huebschmann, Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
imageRates of heart disease and cardiac events in women are often underestimated.eternalcreative/iStock via Getty Images

A simple difference in the genetic code – two X chromosomes versus one X chromosome and one Y chromosome – can lead to major differences in heart disease. It turns out that these genetic differences influence more than...

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