(Sandy Bauers/ Philadelphia Inquirer) — The more the researchers learn about the human heart, the more they realize that men’s and women’s hearts are different.
Different things can go wrong with them. Or the same things can happen, but at different rates.
One example: Far more women — mostly older women — get a malady called “broken heart syndrome.” Yes, that’s a real thing.
For years, the medical community has assumed that if we study men, we can simply apply the same principles in women. We’re learning that is not the case. (…)