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VIDEO: Sex differences, barriers persist for women with heart disease

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SAN ANTONIO — In this video exclusive, Martha Gulati, MD, MS, FACC, FAHA, division chief of cardiology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, physician executive director for Banner University Medicine Heart Institute and editor in chief of ACC’s CardioSmart, discusses the importance of considering sex-specific risk factors for CVD.

Gulati highlights differences in symptoms, care and mortality between women and men with CVD, and highlights the importance for physicians to consider sex-specific risk factors in women.

Watch the video for more.