I'm afraid I didn't really absorb the more technical article. Really what I got out of that article was that there is loads of research being done on sex differences in autoimmune diseases, which I think is great. Honestly I'm just glad it's being funded, and its seems to be producing comprehensive results.

The New York Times article kind of freaked me out, because a perfectly healthy woman got heart disease. Until recently I've thought of heart disease as being associated with mostly men (and heart attacks), of course now I know this isn't the case. I think my misconception is largely due to campaigns for 'traditional' women 's health issues, like for breast and cervical cancer we discussed last week. Anyways, I found this article particularly interesting because doctors didn't catch it at first, it took I think two years after she was waking up from chest pains for a doctor to diagnose her correctly. Indeed from this article it can be seen there is a lot more research to be done in this area of sex differences. Just getting smaller instruments to operate on women with seems to have helped (I found it surprising that this was even an issue).

So the first article (more technical) was from 2001 and the NY Times article was from 2006, clearly there's more work that needs to be done. Anyways, I found both to be interesting.