Heart attack care dangerously unequal for women, study finds Fewer women who suffer a heart attack would die if they were given the same treatments as men, a new study found.
Researchers analysed the outcomes of 180,368 Swedish patients who suffered a heart attack over a 10-year period.
They found women were three times more likely to die from their heart attack than men in the year after having one.
The British Heart Foundation said: "Heart attacks are often seen as a male health issue, but more women die from heart disease than breast cancer."
Researchers at the University of Leeds and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden analysed data from Sweden's online cardiac registry.
They found women were on average less likely than men to receive the recommended treatments after a heart attack. BBC News
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