Dr. Elizabeth Comen
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Yes.
Yeah.
And thankfully, thankfully it's changing.
Yeah.
That's amazing.
There were so many.
Okay, so let's go cardio.
Okay.
You know, there are lots of things.
Just how much the risk factors can appear earlier on for heart disease later in life.
I mean, you're a gynecologist that if you have preeclampsia during pregnancy.
Never learned that.
I never learned that.
I know it now.
That it sets you up for heart disease later on in life, or that we can have smaller vessel disease and that our vessels are different in our heart.
Right, microvascular disease.
Microvascular disease, that sometimes heart attacks are not just secondary to plaques, but can be other things that we're still looking into.
Broken heart syndrome, which is traumatic cardiac events after a traumatic life event, like losing a partner or something like that.
I didn't realize this was more common in women.
The idea that, I mean, just think about, we learned that women's chest pain was atypical.