Women die more than men in hospital from severe heart attack

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Winter months are heart attack months, said Padma Shri & Dr. B.C. Roy National Awardee, Dr. KK Aggarwal, President, Heart Care Foundation of India. Men and women have about the same adjusted in-hospital death rate for heart attack — but women are more likely to die if hospitalized for a more severe type of heart attack.

According to a report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association:

1.     Women are twice as likely as men to die if hospitalized for a
type of heart attack known as ST-elevation myocardial infarction
(STEMI).
2.      Women are also less likely to receive appropriate and timely
treatment for heart attack.
3.      Women with STEMI have a 12 percent higher relative risk for
in-hospital death compared to men.
4.      Compared to men, women are 14 percent less likely to receive
early aspirin; 10 percent less likely to receive beta blockers; 25
percent less likely to receive reperfusion therapy (to restore blood
flow); 22 percent less likely to receive reperfusion therapy within 30
minutes of hospital arrival; and 13 percent less likely to receive
angioplasty within 90 minutes of hospital arrival.
Women admitted with a STEMI are about twice as likely to die in the
first 24 hours of hospitalization as men.

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