Report: Sex-based discrimination in medicine costs lives | Letters

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Readers respond to an article on women being less likely than men to be offered active treatment for the same conditions As head of pharmacovigilance at a clinical trials technology company, I was not surprised that a review of global research found that women are less likely than men to be offered active treatment for the same conditions ( Women with same health conditions as men ‘less likely to be offered active treatment’, 16 September ). The report also notes that This inequality costs lives. A British Heart Foundation-funded study found that women were less likely than men to receive recommended care following a heart attack. Research in 2018 estimated that more than 8,000 women’s deaths may have been prevented over 10 years had they received the same standard of care as men.

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