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Helping Detect Women's Heart Disease

KCET "Life & Times" - January 30, 2007

One of the reasons that heart disease in women is difficult to detect is that many suffer from a form of heart disease that is different from the type that strikes most men and is easily missed by standard tests. In a study lead by Dr. Bairey Merz, gender differences in heart disease are being studied to improve diagnosis and treatment.