' Woman should get medical care as same man '

16-06-2015 09:52
Doctors don't know enough about the female body, whereby women do not make custom. 
 
That standing in a knowledge agenda who today is offered to Minister.
 
 It must now take action, Jannet Vaessen of women Network Women Inc.
 
 "Anno 2015 should half the population count that are just as good is treated as the other half."
 
That happens now not, says Vaessen. "Medical research is often based on men and male laboratory animals. Women are held outside those investigations, due to hormonal differences or a possible pregnancy. The result is that less is known about women and their bodies. That means that diagnoses being late, treatments are inadequate and so that women have a worse state of health. "
 
Sick more often, more medications the knowledge agenda quite: Although women live longer, but getting an average of six years earlier than men to do with chronic diseases, use much more drugs and are more likely to become disabled. "One that quicker, but women get sicker", barrel Vaessen together.
 
One of the most startling male-female-differences that the authors of the knowledge agenda, was caused by a bloeddrukverlager. Who gave four times as many side effects in women as in men. Sometimes patients were hospitalized. 
 
V: "you would still want the search for such a drug is done in the right way, but also that information about those side effects to the patient."
 
Signals The knowledge agenda is drawn up by experts and Institute ZonMW, on the initiative of Women Inc. Director Vaessen got long before the investigation signals that not enough doctors know about the female body. "First you listen to some of the stories. But if there are more, you think: there is a basis. " 
 
According to find her also many clinicians for years that something should be done. "But there are now so many priorities in health care, that it was necessary to join all those sounds to the issue top of mind."
 
The knowledge agenda goes later today to Minister of health. Vaessen hopes that that. "We want more knowledge, and that the knowledge that is already there, better is made available and is included in the basic training of doctors and specialists. So you can be sure that the last knowledge also at your practitioner is known. "
 
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