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Women are more prone than males to have their cardiac illness misdiagnosed.
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The British Heart Foundation published a briefing called Bias and Biology in 2019 that discussed how the gender gap in heart disease may be causing women to die unnecessarily: a woman is 50% more likely than a male to obtain the incorrect initial diagnosis for a heart attack.