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| 11/13/2008 |
Study: Heart Attack Survival Rates Improve For Younger Women
(Chicago, IL) -- Fewer younger women are dying in the hospital from acute heart attacks than in the recent past. Researchers at Emory University in Atlanta say previous studies determined the mortality rate for women under the age of 55 was nearly double that for men of the same age who had an acute attack. However, that margin has narrowed and fell about 80 percent in the last decade. The researchers studied heart attack trends by age and gender in nearly a million patients between 1994 and 2006. They found hospital deaths among all patients fell sharply in that time, but improvements were most pronounced in younger women.
Despite the recent findings, younger women are still 30 percent more likely to die in the hospital after a heart attack than men. According to the American Heart Association, heart disease is the number one killer of American women. |
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