Gender does not appear to have any impact on the risk of dying following a severe heart attack.
Gender does not appear to have any impact on the risk of dying following a severe heart attack.
Women make up about a third of patients who undergo procedures to clear blocked arteries involved in the onset of heart attacks. Heart disease is responsible for nearly double the amount of deaths among women than all cancers combined, including breast cancer.
Female heart attack patients who undergo hospital procedures such an angioplasty are, in fact, more likely to subsequently die than male patients. However, researchers suggest that the additional risk is not a function of gender, but rather of the fact that women are generally
Women make up about a third of patients who undergo procedures to clear blocked arteries involved in the onset of heart attacks. Heart disease is responsible for nearly double the amount of deaths among women than all cancers combined, including breast cancer.
Female heart attack patients who undergo hospital procedures such an angioplasty are, in fact, more likely to subsequently die than male patients. However, researchers suggest that the additional risk is not a function of gender, but rather of the fact that women are generally
older than their male counterparts and are burdened with more complicating health issues at the time of treatment.
To explore death rates among such patients, researchers focused on 8,771 patients from Michigan undergoing treatment for a severe heart attack. While gender was not implicated in a higher risk of death among treated women, the researchers found that female patients do face a higher risk of experiencing the kind of post-treatment bleeding that prompts vascular complications or results in the need for a transfusion.
When they adjusted for factors such as age and comorbidities like hypertension and diabetes, women had similar mortality rates at the time of the heart attack as men.
To explore death rates among such patients, researchers focused on 8,771 patients from Michigan undergoing treatment for a severe heart attack. While gender was not implicated in a higher risk of death among treated women, the researchers found that female patients do face a higher risk of experiencing the kind of post-treatment bleeding that prompts vascular complications or results in the need for a transfusion.
When they adjusted for factors such as age and comorbidities like hypertension and diabetes, women had similar mortality rates at the time of the heart attack as men.
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