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The real heart disease gender gap and the cardiologists that get it all wrong.

Dr. Anish Koka

Image by Pexels from Pixabay There would appear to be confusion among some cardiologists about the relative prevalence of malignant heart disease between men and women as evidenced by this exchange on twitter from pre-pandemic times.

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Rise of the Lysenkoist Cardiologists

Dr. Anish Koka

There may be no better study to symbolize the dysfunction that has invaded cardiology than the VIRGO trial, a study examining the outcomes of young patients (18-55) presenting to the hospital with a heart attack. More cardiac injury means more dead heart muscle, and a larger scar. ” What is going on?