TY  -  JOUR
AU  -  Delsignore, Erica
AU  -  Zanotti, Isabella
AU  -  Bertoncelli, Maria Cristina
AU  -  Politi, Cecilia
AU  -  Re, Roberta
T1  -  The characteristics of chest pain as a possible cause of underdiagnosis of ischemic heart disease in women: a narrative review
PY  -  2024
Y1  -  2024-05-01
DO  -  10.1723/4297.42783
JO  -  Journal of Sex- and Gender-Specific Medicine
JA  -  J Sex Gender Specif Med
VL  -  10
IS  -  2
SP  -  69
EP  -  74
PB  -  Il Pensiero Scientifico Editore
SN  -  2974-8623
Y2  -  2026/04/23
UR  -  http://dx.doi.org/10.1723/4297.42783
N2  -  Summary. It is known that cardiovascular diseases, while nearly equally represented in both genders, are often underdiagnosed in women. This underdiagnosis may be a consequence of the prejudice that women would be less affected by cardiovascular diseases, resulting in a more frequent a priori exclusion of diagnosis or to a different presentation of symptoms compared to men, in which ‘typical cardiac pain’ was first described in the early 1960s. In this paper, the authors analyze whether biological and cultural differences are reported in literature and if they could determine different clinical presentations of acute ischemic heart disease between genders, and whether these variances may influence diagnosis and outcomes.
ER  -