Sometimes you have babies, and sometimes those babies blow out your heart valves and enlarge your heart a little bit. And sometimes it's permanent. And sometimes their doctors order echocardiograms and find new heart disease in you and then tell the nurse to call you and say nothing changed since pregnancy and that you're fine, even though you already read the echo report that clearly states you have valve regurgitation that you didn't have two years ago, and that one of your chambers is moderately larger than it was before the baby. And then you ask for surveillance since this is a newly developed disease, and THEN they say that you can have an echo every three years to make sure it doesn't progress to anything life threatening. And then you tell your other physicians that story and they're disgusted and shocked that it was just blown off, and they make it a point to inform you that you DO need regular surveillance as a precaution. Because you do have real actual heart disease now. Maybe people should know that and fund research so that women don't just randomly die from heart disease because they only studied men. Maybe we should actually study women's heart disease sometimes. That would be cool.
https://www.womenheart.org/heart-valve-disease-why-we-under-diagnose-and-under-treat-women/