Findings Indicate Great Need for Further Education On Sex-Specific Medical Facts
Jump to full article: PR Newswire, 2001-10-30
Author: SOURCE: Society for Women's Health Research
Intro: More than one in three American women at risk for a heart attack are not aware that they may exhibit different heart attack symptoms than men, according to a new poll. The Society for Women's Health Research/Berlex Laboratories Sex Matters Survey found American women are largely unaware of many other sex-specific medical facts . .
* 68 percent of women smokers surveyed do not know that they are more likely to develop lung cancer than men who smoke the same amount. . .
Although lung cancer -- not breast cancer -- is the leading cancer killer in women, the poll found that three out of four women smokers surveyed do not know that they are more likely to develop the most severe types of lung cancer. It also found that more than half of women smokers surveyed do not know that smoking increases cardio vascular risk by lowering the age of a first heart attack more often for women than men. . .
Although 70 percent of women say their doctors are the most reliable source of health-related information, the poll also found that the majority of women learn about sex-specific health information from newspapers and magazines. For example, only one in four women smokers who knew the risk of lung cancer is greater for women than men said that they heard it from their doctor. Half learned it from newspapers, magazines and television shows.
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