Every 22 minutes, a woman in Canada dies of a heart attack.
But the majority don’t have to, experts say, warning that more women will die unnecessarily if the medical community doesn’t tailor care to their needs.
“We have one of the best health-care systems in the world, and we’re not serving women,” said Dr. Paula Harvey, a cardiologist and head of the department of medicine at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto. “We have to do better.”
Heart disease is a top killer of women in Canada, and the push to change that is more urgent than ever. Harvey says more younger women
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