Infinite Health with Dr. Arasi Maran
Apr 30, 2026 · 59 min · 19 segments
Welcome back to Infinite Health! On today’s episode, host and cardiologist Dr. Arasi Maran dives into a topic that is both surprising and urgent: heart disease is the number one killer of women…
This is one of my favorite topics because no one else talks about it, and I wanna start with one sentence that frames everything we are going to discuss today.
They are biologically distinct, and for most of medical history, we ignored that.
And almost everything we know about heart disease comes from research done predominantly on men.
The symptoms we taught doctors to look for, drug doses we calibrated, the risk scores we built, they were all based on male physiology.
So when a woman walks into an emergency room with a heart attack, she is still more likely than a man to be sent home with a diagnosis of anxiety.
It begins at her very first period, and every hormonal transition she moves through, puberty, contraception, pregnancy, perimenopause, is a window into her future cardiovascular risk.
If we start reading those windows correctly, we can intervene earlier, prevent more, save far more lives.
This is one of my favorite topics because no one else talks about it, and I wanna start with one sentence that frames everything we are going to discuss today.
They are biologically distinct, and for most of medical history, we ignored that.
And almost everything we know about heart disease comes from research done predominantly on men.
The symptoms we taught doctors to look for, drug doses we calibrated, the risk scores we built, they were all based on male physiology.
So when a woman walks into an emergency room with a heart attack, she is still more likely than a man to be sent home with a diagnosis of anxiety.
It begins at her very first period, and every hormonal transition she moves through, puberty, contraception, pregnancy, perimenopause, is a window into her future cardiovascular risk.
If we start reading those windows correctly, we can intervene earlier, prevent more, save far more lives.
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