Women As One shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Dr. Janet Wei, MD, FACC, FAHA has called major cardiovascular societies to develop separate, sex-specific guidelines, designed with women’s physiology, life stages, and risks in mind.
‘We need to separate the sexes and we need to better understand how hormones premenopause, postmenopause, perimenopause, all play into the management of women.’
Dr. Wei said.
Women experience heart disease differently:
- More likely to suffer heart attacks without blocked arteries (MINOCA)
- Higher risk of complications during pregnancy and postpartum
- Greater bleeding risk after cardiovascular procedures
- Distinct responses to medications like GLP-1 receptor agonists
- Risk profiles shaped by menopause, early pregnancy complications, and hormonal changes
Yet most major cardiovascular guidelines still fail to reflect these differences. Women’s hearts deserve evidence-based care, and we support developments in guidelines that create female specific models of care.”
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