- Researchers compared outcomes among men and women following a heart attack.
- They found that women are more likely to die following a heart attack than men.
- The findings highlight the need for stricter surveillance of women following heart attacks.
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Men are more likely than women to have cardiovascular conditions. However, research indicates that women have worse outcomes during hospital stays than men after a heart attack.
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Gaining more insights into different outcomes among men and women following heart attacks could improve care strategies.
Recently, researchers examined outcomes among men and women admitted to hospital between 2010 and 2015 for a heart attack and treated with a stent within 48 hours of symptom onset.
They found that women are two to three times more likely to have adverse outcomes such as death than men both in the short and long term.
Dr. Steven Gundry, a cardiothoracic surgeon, Founder of Gundry MD, and host of the Dr. Gundry Podcast, not involved in the study, told Medical News Today:
“The studies are one more piece of evidence that women’s heart complaints are sadly not taken as seriously as men’s. The study [also] confirms is that pre menopausal women are equally at risk. There is this long held assumption that women are protected against heart disease by estrogen; but as with the epidemic of obesity and diabetes, that is no longer the case.”
The study was presented at the Heart Failure 2023 Congress organized by the European Society of Cardiology.
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