"The research will also focus on cardiovascular disease. While this is a health issue for both sexes, it can affect them differently. Women are more likely to have worse outcomes after a heart attack, experiencing higher rates of complications and mortality, often due to factors like delayed diagnosis, less timely treatment and different symptoms compared to men, according to a study presented at the scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology."
"Women's health research has historically been underfunded, and under-researched with medical research treating men's bodies as the default. In the US, women of childbearing age were mostly excluded from early-phase clinical drug trials between 1977 and 1993. While this policy was largely a protective response after children were born with severe birth defects when their mothers took the thalidomide drug during pregnancy, it also resulted in women being systematically excluded from clinical drug trials"
Melinda French Gates committed $50m through Pivotal Ventures to fund new women's health research, part of a $1bn investment over two years. The grant will go to US NGO Wellcome Leap to finance studies into autoimmune conditions, mental health and cardiovascular disease that pose significant risks to women worldwide. About 80% of people with autoimmune diseases are women, and depression is roughly 1.5 times more common in women than men globally. Cardiovascular disease affects both sexes but often causes worse outcomes for women due to delayed diagnosis, less timely treatment and different symptoms. Historical research practices excluded many women from clinical trials, contributing to persistent underfunding and knowledge gaps.
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