Burning Bonus
who told you this
I mean itd be pretty stupid not to do research on people an just focus on men
an like in what way is the meds focused at men
do the meds not work on women or somethin
like I still aint ever heard of nothin to do with just mens heart disease
but theres this with a whole day
I cant say as I agree that its fair
They have been doing medical research about heart problems for over fifty years. The problem is, it was not until the '80s that doctors realized that heart disease and attacks manifest much differently in women than they do in men.
While doing medical research in the past, doctors have always studied men, and have always done polls and questionaires on men, and have always enrolled men in clinical trials. The female body was considered too "finicky" and chaotic to be able to answer any solid questions on how the body works.
This is why for a very long time, women were misdiagnosed when they really had heart disease. When they had heart attacks, they were misdiagnosed, because all the information doctors had pertained to men, they just
assumed that's how it worked in women, as well. No one thought to actually run some tests to prove it.
Hence, you have awareness of heart disease in women. Even today, all of our cultural messages about heart attacks still only apply to men. The clutching of the chest, the pain down the left arm...that's how a heart attack manifests in men; not in women. So if a woman is having a heart attack, a layperson won't actually be aware of what's going on, and the woman might not even realize that she's having a heart attack.