Women And Heart Attack: Study Finds Failure To Recognize & Treat

SOURCE: Medical News Today

DATE:  May 7, 2008

EXCERPT: "The gender gap is alive and well in heart disease, a new international study finds, with women differing from men on everything from symptoms to treatment in both heart attack and severe chest pain. 

One of the most striking findings was that women were twice as likely as men to have "normal" or "mild" results on an exam of their heart's blood vessels, with no single blockage taking up more than 50 percent of any one blood vessel.

This was despite the fact that their other test results showed they were definitely having a heart attack, or a form of chest pain called unstable angina."    more

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Dey S, Flather MD, Devlin GP, Brieger D, Gurfinkel EP, Steg PG, Fitzgerald G, Jackson EA, Eagle KA. Sex-related differences in the presentation, treatment and outcomes among patients with acute coronary syndromes. The Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events. Heart. 2008 May 7. [Epub ahead of print]