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Myocardial Infarction
Doctors Misdiagnose Women and Blacks
May 6th, 2000
Emergency rooms miss the signs of a heart attack in only about 2% of patients, but much more often in blacks and young or middle-aged women, a study finds. About 1.7 million patients are admitted to U.S. hospitals each year with heart attacks or the warning chest pains known as unstable angina. The study finds that emergency rooms incorrectly send home about 26,000 other patients each year with the same conditions. "The good news is it's only 2%. The bad news is that's 26,000 patients," said Dr. Harry Selker, a researcher at New England Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. The study, published in the April 20, 2000, issue of...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2000-05-06)
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