Professor Brendan McAdam:

That is another great question. The most important thing to start with is increased awareness. Many people have a bias that heart disease does not affect women. That is not true. Women have higher case fatality rates than men, they have limited access to care, they do not do as well as men with the provision of cardiovascular care and they are less likely to access rehabilitation, which is a very important part of the treatment for cardiovascular diseases. Increased awareness and increased funding would be very important in trying to progress that issue, but we need to measure what we are doing so we know that we can do better.