Q.Explain about Stress Testing in Women?

Data on mortality in men is about 2.5 times that of women. At younger ages, however, CAD in men exceeds that found in women by 5 to 1. It is found that risk factors of smoking and use of oral contraceptives are almost always present when CAD is found in premenopausal non diabetic women. It is paradoxical that exercise induced ST depression in normal women younger that 45 years, has been found to be much more common than in men (almost four times). Because CAD is known to be less prevalent in women than in men, these changes must be presumed to be due to some process independent of coronary atherosclerosis.