The site is immense; The files are not lacking. It should be added, because here too there is an urgent need for a sexist approach to the diagnosis and treatment of major diseases such as myocardial infarction.
The secretariat for equality between women and men already had a 30 million budget for 2018. Emmanuel Macron announced a transversal budget of 420 million euros dedicated to this cause against 397 million last year.
The Ministry of Health will be able to add a counterpart that Agnès Buzyn will not deny, who is very attached to this parity in her field of health. There is an emergency, we know the solutions they are probably not that complicated to apply.
The first site of this lack of parity, the scandal of the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases in women, in particular myocardial infarction. In medicine, legends die hard; Like the one who claims that women’s hearts are less fragile than men’s. An untruth that costs a lot of lives … Today, cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in women. For many of us, both men and women, it is obvious: cardiovascular disease and in particular myocardial infarction, are diseases of men. To women, breast cancer, pap smears and other conditions that men can not have and for good reason … It is false! Today in industrialized countries, one in 26 women dies from breast cancer while one in 2 dies from cardiovascular disease!
The tribute paid by modern women
It is true that the female sex is a favorable factor with respect to these diseases at the beginning of life. But the modern woman, although naturally protected by her hormones, behaves like a man during her working life: she smokes more and more; she is stressed, overweight or hypertensive at times, sedentary too often. In short, all the ingredients to develop cardiovascular disease as well.
As long as they have their period, no problem: doctors have shown it: female hormones, estrogen protect the heart. However, after menopause, in their fifties, everything changes and women become the equal of men in the face of heart failure, except that they will have their vascular accident 10 years later than him.
The responsible doctor as much as the woman
How to bend the curves of these accidents? By changing mentalities, and taking preventive measures that have proven their effectiveness.
On the doctor’s side, first of all. One study showed that in people who had heart disease, cholesterol levels were only measured in 35% of women, compared to 50% of men. All, by the way, should have had a measure of this important risk factor. More seriously, this finding was followed by treatment against cholesterol in only 21% of women against 31% of men.
Next woman’s side. Obsessed by breast cancer, they forget their heart as shown in an American opinion poll. Only one in 3 women recognize tobacco, cholesterol, lack of physical activity, being overweight as risk factors and one in 5 cites the role of heredity and stress. That’s not all, half of them are convinced that once declared, the disease is more unfavorable to men than to women, which is perfectly false.
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