Lisbon: A study found that women are twice as likely to die from heart attacks as men.
In a study of 884 men and women in Portugal, researchers found that women were less likely to survive a heart attack.
All of these people were admitted to the hospital for the most dangerous type of heart attack (in which a vein that supplies blood to the heart is blocked).
All patients underwent angioplasty to open the blocked vein and a stent was inserted to allow blood to circulate freely. Angioplasty was performed on these patients within 48 hours of onset of symptoms and a study was initiated to determine the mortality rate in these patients.
The results of the study, to be presented at the European Society of Cardiology’s Scientific Congress Heart Failure 2023, showed that women were 2.8 times more likely to die within their 30s after developing the condition.
On this occasion, 11.8% of women died while the death rate for men was 4.6%.
Women’s risks of dying from heart attacks are also higher, perhaps because they tend to have heart attacks when they are older and generally in poorer health than men.
Dr Mariana Martinho, lead author of the study, said that women of all ages who suffer a heart attack are at increased risk for poor health.
He said that these women need to strictly control blood pressure, cholesterol and diabetes after suffering from this medical condition.
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