2023-05-24 18:00:00
Several factors, including a longer delay before treatment, explain this difference according to a study by the Fondation Agir pour le cœur des femmes.
Are women discriminated once morest when it comes to the management of a heart attack? We are entitled to believe it when we read the study carried out by a team from the Garcia de Orta hospital in Portugal.
Indeed, the latter indicates that women are almost 3 times more likely to succumb to a heart attack than men. The fault of the physiological characteristics, but not only since a lack of care is also pointed out.
Most deadly heart attacks in women
The results of the work of Dr Mariana Martinho from Garcia de Orta Hospital in Portugal have been published on the sidelines of a congress organized by the European Society of Cardiology. The study looked at the cases of 884 patients whose average age was 62 years. 27% were women.
The finding is clear since 30 days following the occurrence of a heart attack, 11.8% of women had not survived once morest 4.6% of men. 5 years later, 32.9% of women have died, compared to only 15.8% of men. 34.1% of women suffered a new heart attack, compared to 17.6% of men over the same period.
More important risk factors…
The researchers first looked at the various risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol or smoking. They first noticed that these risk factors were more frequent in women over 55 than in men of the same age. Also, postmenopausal women had higher mortality than men of the same age.
… and lack of support
These risk factors do not explain everything. The researchers noticed that women wait an average of 1 hour 35 minutes in the hospital before being taken care of during a cardiac event, compared to 1 hour 20 minutes once morest men. 15 minutes can make a big difference.
Also, the study indicates that patients often present with atypical symptoms before a heart attack which often delays the diagnosis. But even when the diagnosis is made, women do not necessarily receive adequate treatment. The placement of a Stent is also often more delicate in women because of a smaller diameter of the arteries, which in fact makes the prognosis less favorable.
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