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Women have advantage in heart muscle salvage, but gender disparities in therapy
April 7th, 2005
Certain female patients appear to get more benefit than male patients from a type of heart attack treatment, but women with an acute coronary syndrome receive less aggressive treatment than men, according to two new studies in the March 15, 2005, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. In the first study of its kind, researchers in Germany found that emergency catheter procedures to treat heart attacks appear to rescue more heart muscle in women than in men. "We believe that women may have some biological superiority compared with men," said Julinda Mehilli, MD, at the Deutsches Herzzentrum in Munich, Germany. "The most...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-04-07)
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