Woman's Hour - heart disease discussion

[Realityisreal]

An interesting interview today regarding only 30% of people taking part in heart disease trials are women and the reasons why.
Shocked that Nuala didn't ask the guest to clarify what she means by women!
Nuala also asked about the difference in symptoms between men and women, surely someone at women's hour might finally grasp the importance of differentiating between biological men and biological women!

'There are several sex-specific differences in drug metabolism and efficacy, and it is imperative to ensure adequate representation of both men and women when evaluating these drugs. Recent studies have addressed why these gaps may exist and how to improve participation in the future. This change will require funding to power studies to look at sex-specific outcomes, which would significantly impact the population to enroll. Further, this will necessitate investment in an infrastructure that improves patient and provider awareness and knowledge, expanding access to trial design, and adequate representation in trial leadership. Currently, the FDA has no legal requirement for trials to have a certain percentage of patients in the subgroups. The FDA could consider including gender parity in enrollment or possibly target enrollment of women equal to the composition of the disease in the population (PPR of 1).'

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10978324/

@ArabellaScott This makes it all the more concerning that many NHS staff are willing to claim ignorance to biological differences.

Completely. It's outrageous.

Just as medecine was almost starting to recognise the important differences in sex based medecine, in both illness and treatment, and how women's health has been affected by unacknowledged sex differences, along came genderpish and fucked it all up.

In fact, sex and gender based differences, because the reason women's health issues have historically been ignored and dismissed is all down to sexism.

Such nonsense

I love the term genderpish, it should be used more often

For a long time, I’ve wondered what goes on inside their heads whenever they address anything appertaining to women. It’s a sort of extreme doublethink in action.