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Gender Bias in Healthcare May Be Harming Women 

 "In a recent report, Bairey Merz found that though heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women and they are nearly twice as likely as men to die in the year following a heart attack, only 40 percent of women’s routine care includes a heart risk check. Too often, doctors treat women at risk for heart disease very differently than men, Bairey Merz noted."

 "Young women were more likely to be told to lose weight, where the young men who were actually more overweight were more likely to be put on effective preventive therapy,” she said.

“People are always sort of judging women according to their weight."

~ R. Powell and A. Pawlowski

https://www.today.com/health/gender-bias-health-care-may-be-harming-women-s-health-t133583