Meghan McCarthy: Closing the Diagnostic Gap in Women with Bleeding Disorders
Meghan McCarthy, Founder of Maternie and MKMV Consulting, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“A Lancet Haematology Commission published findings on the diagnosis gap for bleeding disorders in women. Average time from symptom onset to diagnosis: 14 to 16 years. For men: approximately two years.
The gap exists because bleeding disorders were historically studied in male patients. Women present differently. Heavy menstrual bleeding — affecting up to one in three women with an underlying disorder — is the most common first symptom. It is also routinely dismissed as a normal variation.
The commission is calling for this gap to be reduced to under two years by 2035. That requires point-of-care change: gynecologists, who see these patients first, need to be screening for bleeding disorders as part of the workup for menorrhagia.
The downstream costs of the current gap include unnecessary procedures, undertreated anemia, and preventable hemorrhage during childbirth and surgery.”
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