British and Swedish researchers have discovered that more women are likely to die from heart attacks due to receiving poorer care than men, according to both The BBC and The Times.
Approximately 70,000 women are admitted into hospital with symptoms of a heart attack each year in the UK and 28,000 die. One of the authors of the study, Professor Gale from Leeds University, believes that many of these could be saved with better treatment.
He commented that ‘there’s a misconception amongst general public and healthcare professionals about what heart attack patients are like’, leading to women receiving poorer care as their early symptoms are initially misdiagnosed.
The research, based on heart attack studies in Sweden, revealed that women were 34% less likely to receive treatment such as bypass surgery and the insertion of stents into the blood vessels.
It is suggested that this situation may be worse in the UK where more people die from heart attacks.
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