Philips Launches Gender-Differentiated Cardiograph

Netherlands-based Royal Philips Electronics has launched a new cardiograph, which uses gender-differentiated criteria to assist the diagnosis of heart disease in women. Despite women with coronary heart disease experiencing different symptoms and showing different clinical differences than men, with more damage occurring in smaller blood vessels with fewer arterial blockages, past tests for diagnosing the non-communicable disease have been developed and tested in men. Less than 40% of the participants in cardiovascular studies funded by the National Institutes of Health in the US have been

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