SOURCE: MedPage Today
DATE: October 26, 2009
EXCERPT: "Heart attack rates have increased among middle-age women in the past two decades, but the risk of a woman dying from a heart attack has dropped, new studies have found." moreRELATED PUBMED LINK:
Towfighi A, Zheng L, Ovbiagele B. Sex-specific trends in midlife coronary heart disease risk and prevalence. Arch Intern Med. 2009 Oct 26;169(19):1762-6.
Vaccarino V, Parsons L, Peterson ED, Rogers WJ, Kiefe CI, Canto J. Sex differences in mortality after acute myocardial infarction: changes from 1994 to 2006. Arch Intern Med. 2009 Oct 26;169(19):1767-74.
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