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Women's Heart Health: Increased Awareness and Better Treatment

This resolution highlights that heart disease is the leading cause of death among women in the U.S. and is often misdiagnosed. It calls for increased awareness of gender-specific symptoms, support for gender-specific research, and improved health policies to save lives and reduce healthcare costs.
Key points
Raising awareness about the different heart disease symptoms in women to improve early diagnosis.
Supporting gender-specific cardiovascular research to lead to better treatment methods.
Actions aimed at reducing healthcare costs by improving the recognition and treatment of heart disease in women.
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Recognizing women's cardiovascular health as a critical health care priority that affects every State and contributes to increased health care costs, and promoting the necessity of increased awareness of and education on the symptoms for heart disease among women, gender-specific cardiovascular disease research, and policy action to alleviate the risks of heart disease among women.
Print number: HRES 88
Sponsor: Rep. Herrera Beutler, Jaime [R-WA-3]
Process start date: 2021-02-02