When women complain to doctors of shortness of breath, fatigue and indigestion, they’re often told they’re stressed. Or worse, they go to the emergency room, and are diagnosed with a panic attack or a virus.

Some learn later they’ve suffered heart attacks. Some die first.

A new generation of female entrepreneurs is determined to address these shockingly common misdiagnoses and care delays that are among the reasons women are up to twice as likely to die of heart attacks as men. Frustrated by treatment guidelines from studies once based almost exclusively on men, some of these businesswomen are developing new devices better suited to women, from a bra turned cardiac monitor, to a “smart” blood pressure cuff that detects the earliest signs of coronary artery disease. Others are harnessing consumer-friendly digital apps and artificial intelligence to educate women about their risks for a set of conditions that kill more women in the United States every year than all cancers combined.

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