Abstract
Recent advances in the field of cardiovascular medicine have not led to significant declines in case-fatality rates for women as in men. There are gender-specific differences in symptoms profile, diagnosis and treatment of coronary disease in women. For women presenting for coronary heart disease (CHD) evaluation, traditional disease management approaches that focus on detection of a ‘critical stenosis’ often fail to identify those women critically at-risk. Symptoms do not help physicians in differential diagnosis of chest pain in women; indeed the most common presentation of obstructive CHD in women is atypical symptoms. In 50% of the cases, non-obstructive CHD at coronary angiography, due to ‘noncardiac chest pain’ or coronary microvascular dysfunction is frequently reported. For these reasons, the evidence reviewed suggests that prognostic risk assessment may work relatively better than diagnostic obstructive coronary disease assessment for women.
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