Research helps develop cardiac treatments for women

LOUISVILLE — Health care professionals recognized decades ago that medical research exhibited a bias toward men at the expense of women. The result: Treatments advanced the health of men while ignoring the gender differences that women exhibited.

When it comes to cardiac care, the acknowledgment of research shortcomings is starting to make a difference, according to Kim Riemer, a nurse practitioner with AdventHealth, the organization that operates AdventHealth Avista in Louisville.

“There’s a lot of push to recognize young women in their childbearing years to manage the risk that they face,” Riemer said in an interview with BizWest.

And the same applies to…