That’s a broad statement that covers a number of situations and conditions. For example, in cases of heart attack, women’s symptoms are different from men’s. Sometimes they go unrecognized. Women themselves may not recognize the symptoms. A misdiagnosis can therefore ensue.
I’ll let my colleague Ed Morgan talk about medical devices. I can tell you, however, that historically, many of these devices were designed for a man’s body from a size perspective and did not necessarily meet women’s needs.
When it comes to differences in diagnoses, treatment and symptom identification, it’s hard to find a disease or condition that wouldn’t be affected by these circumstances. That’s why we conduct sex and gender analyses in all our work, because we don’t know what we don’t know. It’s really about making sure that we take the different circumstances and needs of all populations into consideration.
Ed, I don't know if you want to add anything in terms of diagnostics and medical devices for men and women, just in terms of differences.