 |
|
Gender Differences in Coronary Artery DiseaseBias, Method, or Fact of Life?
Joseph Herman, MD
Arch Fam Med. 1993;2(4):365-366.
|
|
| Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings. |
|
|
|
AN OLD Hasidic tale, with overtones of Zen, has two litigants appearing before their rabbi. When the first has completed his plea, the rabbi nods in approval and says: "You're absolutely right!" The second draws an identical response, at which the sexton, also in attendance, observes sourly: "They can't both be right." The rabbi then turns to him with a benevolent smile and concludes, "You know, you're right too!"
I was put in mind of this little parable by the vexed question of gender and coronary artery disease. The fact that men are 10 times as likely as women to be referred for angiography after an abnormal nuclear test result has been noted1 and attributed to "sex bias." The higher mortality of female patients at coronary bypass has been reiterated of late2 and is thought to be due to "referral bias," which means that men are more often
. . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]
Author Affiliations
Beer-Sheva, Israel
|
