Women have more strokes than men, but new European Guidelines remove ‘women’ because it omits ‘non-binary people.

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For people with an irregular heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation, the risk of stroke can be substantive. For a long time, there was a risk score called CHADS-2-VASc that awards points to give you a sense of risk. More points.. more risk.

Over the age of 75… 2 points. Having had a prior stroke… 2 points. Being a woman… 1 point (because women, age-adjusted, have higher stroke risk than men).

Unfortunately that’s no longer PC in Europe. The European Society of Cardiology has decided to remove women as a risk factor because “The inclusion of gender complicates clinical practice both for healthcare professionals and patients. It also omits individuals who identify as non-binary, transgender, or are undergoing sex hormone therapy”

Ok. So, it changed “women” to “female sex.”

Medical stuff often updates terminology as the English language changes. For instance, the words used for various races have changed over my lifetime.