Women and men are different, cardiovascular edition

It’s quite the task to photograph someone’s heart while they’re exercising. They have to lie on their back in a pressure-controlled chamber, riding a suspended stationary bike while an ultrasound imager points at their pumping heart — at least that’s how one group of researchers from the University of Calgary and Hong Kong went about it.

With this curious setup as part of their study, the researchers were looking for precise differences in men’s and women’s heart health.

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