Gender-Specific Guidelines for Women’s Heart Failure Care
Call for Change in Treating Women for Heart Failure Treatment
Tags: SingHealth Duke-NUS, Singapore, Healthcare & Lifesciences
Professor Carolyn Lam from the National Heart Centre Singapore advocates for gender-specific guidelines in heart failure treatment, noting that women’s hearts differ anatomically and physiologically from men’s. Her decade-long research reveals that women respond differently to heart failure therapies, showing more side effects and unique treatment outcomes. Current guidelines based on male-centric data may lead to inaccurate diagnoses and ineffective treatments in women. Addressing this gap, she calls for revised standards that consider women’s unique heart structures and drug tolerances. This change could improve heart failure outcomes for women, who are often underrepresented in heart studies.
IP Type or Form Factor: Programme & Content
TRL: 2 - technology concept and/or application formulated
Industry or Tech Area: Healthcare Provider; Public Health & Universal Healthcare
