Dr Natalie Crawford

And what they found was, yes, we live longer.

We've all known that.

However, we have twice as high of mental health disorders.

We're two times as more likely to end up in a nursing home.

We are much more likely to lose our long-term independence from frailty or dementia, much more than our age-matched male counterparts.

And that's, I think, what we're all trying to fight here.

Eighth inhibitors.

Also, when we look at how we disease.

So in cardiovascular diseases, atherosclerotic disease is the best example.

Men tend to have their blockages.

So atherosclerotic disease is basically the plaques that build up in the coronary arteries around the heart.

Men tend to develop their plaques.

very early, right as those arteries exit the aorta and dive into the heart muscle.

So we get what we call the widowmaker, okay?

It's called that for a reason because men die and they make a widow.

And so that's the left anterior descending artery.

Women, by and large, tend to not have these larger artery blockages, but their blockages are diffuse and microvascular, deeper into the heart muscle, which is why we present with a heart attack.

much differently than a man does.

And we're not educating our clinicians as to these differences.

Women are considered to have atypical chest pain.