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A heart attack is not only a man's disease

Women are dying needlessly from heart attacks because of not receiving proper treatment

30-Sep-2019

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About 35,000 women are admitted to hospital in the UK every year after suffering from a heart attack.

Women are 50 per cent more likely to receive a wrong initial diagnosis.

BHF says twice as many women die from coronary heart disease in the UK than breast cancer.

Women were 2.7% less likely to be prescribed statins, 7.4% less likely to be prescribed beta-blockers.

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British Heart Foundation (BHF)

Charity organization researching heart and circulatory diseases

Chris Gale

Cardiovascular Medicine Professor and Co-Director of the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics.

Sonya Babu-Narayan

Honorary consultant cardiologist.

University of Leeds

University for research power.

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Heart Disease