Tulane Awarded $11.2 Million NIH Grant to Pioneer Sex-Based Precision Medicine
July 16, 2024
July 16, 2024
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 16 -- Tulane University issued the following news release:
If a man and a woman each suffer a heart attack, you may assume the symptoms and diagnoses should be the same.
That's not always the case. While men are more likely to show the more "typical" signs of a heart attack -- chest pains, shortness of breath -- women are more likely to experience pain in their necks or symptoms that feel like heartburn or nausea. An angiogram . . .
If a man and a woman each suffer a heart attack, you may assume the symptoms and diagnoses should be the same.
That's not always the case. While men are more likely to show the more "typical" signs of a heart attack -- chest pains, shortness of breath -- women are more likely to experience pain in their necks or symptoms that feel like heartburn or nausea. An angiogram . . .