Facts & Sources
American Lung Association: https://www.lung.org/research/trends-in-lung-disease/lung-cancer-trends-brief.
American Heart Association European Society of Cardiology: https://www.escardio.org/The-ESC/Press-Office/Press-releases/Women-more-likely-to-die-after-heart-attack-than-men. “Women had a two to three times higher likelihood of adverse outcomes than men in the short- and long-term.”
American Heart Association: https://newsroom.heart.org/news/women-found-to-be-at-higher-risk-for-heart-failure-and-heart-attack-death-than-men#:~:text=The%20development%20of%20heart%20failure,flow%2C%20such%20as%20surgical%20angioplasty.
Center for Women’s Health: https://www.ohsu.edu/womens-health/fibroids-more-common-you-think#:~:text=%22Fibroids%20are%20extremely%20common%2C%22,have%20fibroids%20before%20age%2050.
March of Dimes: https://www.marchofdimes.org/sites/default/files/2024-09/2024_MoD_MCD_Report.pdf
National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc.: https://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/breast-cancer-facts/
Moffitt Cancer Center: https://www.moffitt.org/cancers/ovarian-cancer/survival-rate/#:~:text=Ovarian%20cancer%20survival%20rates%20by,for%20women%20older%20than%2064
Journal of Neuroinflammation: https://jneuroinflammation.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12974-020-01998-9#:~:text=Estrogens%20exert%20beneficial%20effects%20on,increased%20blood%20pressure%20%5B17%5D.
JAMA: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2823976.
New Scientist: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2081497-women-live-longer-than-men-but-suffer-more-years-of-poor-health/
National Library of Medicine: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10243778/#:~:text=Females%20represented%2046.9%25%20of%20participants,odds%20of%20proportional%20female%20representation.
State of Women’s Health by Accenture and Springboard Enterprises: https://sb.co/wp-content/uploads/Part-1_State-of-Womens-Health_2024_v7.pdf.
The Harvard Gazette: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/03/study-confirms-why-we-need-female-mice-in-neuroscience-research/
Harvard Medical School: https://postgraduateeducation.hms.harvard.edu/trends-medicine/embracing-diversity-imperative-inclusive-clinical-trials?utm
National Library of Medicine: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7275616/#:~:text=Women%20experience%20adverse%20drug%20reactions,so%20women%20may%20be%20overmedicated.
University of Wisconsin-Madison; Gynecology Oncology: https://urology.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Gynecologic-Oncology-Comparison-of-2015-Medicare-RVUs.pdf
Haymarket Marketing Communications: https://www.mmm-online.com/home/channel/how-womens-health-brands-communicate-on-social-media-they-cant/#:~:text=A%20three%2Dyear%20study%20by,with%20other%20women's%20health%20leaders.
National Library of Medicine: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37738034/.
Fierce Healthcare: https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/finance/business-case-investing-womens-health
Nasdaq: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/womens-health-vc-investment-report-shows-mixed-progress?utm
World Economic Forum: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2023/12/how-we-can-close-the-venture-capital-gender-gap/?utm
London Business School: https://www.london.edu/think/iie-why-female-entrepreneurs-are-missing-out-on-funding
Silicon Valley Bank: https://www.svb.com/trends-insights/reports/womens-health-report/
Silicon Valley Bank: https://www.svb.com/trends-insights/reports/womens-health-report/
Women’s Health Access Matters: https://thewhamreport.org
Silicon Valley Bank: https://www.svb.com/trends-insights/reports/womens-health-report/#:~:text=314%25%20Increase%20in%20women's%20health,than%20the%20overall%20innovation%20ecosystem
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