Underdiagnosis of Women’s Heart Disease Not Resolved by Sex-Specific Criteria
Association for Diagnostic and Laboratory Medicine (ADLM (formerly AACC))The symptoms of heart disease are often less obvious in women than in men, and as a result, some experts have recommended changing current medical practice and using separate criteria to identify the disease and predict its progression in women. However, new findings in the “Advancing Women’s Health” issue of Clinical Chemistry, the journal of AACC, suggest that sex-specific criteria do not improve the prognostic accuracy of blood tests for diagnosing heart disease.