Gulf Women Twice as Likely as Men to Die of Heart Attack
Women face greater risk of heart attack deaths: study
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Women throughout the Gulf are almost twice as likely to die in hospital after a heart attack, as male patients, a new regional study published by the American Journal of Cardiology has revealed.
The research involved looking at the death rate of 8,166 males and females hospitalised in 2009 for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) – which includes heart attack and unstable angina.
It was found that female patients who suffered ACS were 1.75 times more likely to die while in hospital than males with the same condition.
Delayed diagnosis of ACS in women, and failure to prescribe the correct cardiovascular medications, and not carrying out the necessary interventions after the event, were behind the increase in the death rate.
The research project was called the Gulf Registry for Acute Coronary Events (Gulf RACE) and the study was titled Comparison of Men and Women with Acute Coronary Syndrome in Six Middle Eastern Countries, 2009.
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Interesting! Why is it that only women are most likely to die from ACS?!
The sad thing is, my sister who is a teacher says many of her students born in the aftermath of the 1990 Invasion are suffering from heart problems… she says in one grade you can have as many as 3 or 5 young girls with heart problems!
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Hmmm, not ‘only’ women, just that women are less likely to be correctly diagnosed and correctly – and quickly – treated, if I read the study correctly. And by the way, I believe this holds true pretty much everywhere. There is a lot more research that has been done on male heart attacks, and only now are they discovering that heart attacks can manifest very differently in women – like an intense ache in your jaw, for example (whoda thunk???)
I’m just glad they are finally starting to study us separately, and learn how to treat us more effectively.
Young girls with heart problems?? Danderma, were they exposed to something that caused this? I have heard rumors that there are also increased cancer risks because of some of the chemicals to which people were exposed during the Iraqi invasion, occupation, and especially the horrors when they retreated, and lit the oil fields. Or is it the everyday pollution from the refineries?