New guidance could help doctors correctly diagnose more heart attacks in women
New medical guidelines recommend that doctors use different cardiac troponin test cutoff points for women and men to improve heart attack diagnosis accuracy.
According to guidelines released in August by the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, European Society of Cardiology and World Heart Federation, doctors should use different cutoff points for women and men when reading cardiac troponin test results.
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