Sex-specific biomarkers are needed to learn why heart attacks kill more women than men

Disproportionately more women than men die due to cardiovascular disease and heart attacks in the U.S., and current risk scoring systems--based on factors measured mainly in male populations--are poor predictors of mortality risk for women who suffer cardiac arrest. The need for sex-specific biomarker and risk stratification tools to improve diagnosis and treatment is clearly described in the Editorial "Sex, Myocardial Infarction, and the Failure of Risk Scores in Women," published in Journal of...