Cardiovascular disease symptoms in women are often not recognized or are dismissed as psychological, leading to delayed diagnosis and higher mortality rates compared to men.

“the starkest example is cardiovascular disease you know how much longer we have to wait in the Ed how much more likely we are to die in the hospital setting from a heart attack because we don't present the same symptoms as men do and it's just the default has always been how it happens to the basic you know really Caucasian male and so at least in the US and so because we respond differently because we wait longer because our symptoms are considered to be psychologically induced less than biologically induced and so women are dying at higher rates”