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THURSDAY, Oct. 15, 2020 (HealthDay News)<\/p>\n
Younger women who suffer a heart attack<\/a> are more likely than men to die in the decade after surgery, a new study finds.<\/p>\n It included more than 400 women and nearly 1,700 men, average age 45, who had a first heart<\/a> attack between 2000 and 2016.<\/p>\n During an average follow-up of more than 11 years, there were no statistically significant differences between men and women for deaths while in the hospital, or for heart<\/a>-related deaths.<\/p>\n However, women had a 1.6-fold increased risk of dying from other causes during the follow-up, according to the study published Oct. 14 in the European Heart Journal<\/i>.<\/p>\n “Cardiovascular deaths occurred in 73 men and 21 women, 4.4% versus 5.3% respectively, over a median follow-up time of 11.2 years,” said study leader Dr. Ron Blankstein, a preventive cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.<\/p>\n “However, when excluding deaths that occurred in the hospital, there were 157 deaths in men and 54 deaths in women from all causes during the follow-up period: 9.5% versus 13.5% respectively, which is a significant difference, and a greater proportion of women died from causes other than cardiovascular problems, 8.4% versus 5.4% respectively,” Blankstein said in a journal news release.<\/p>\n The study also found that women were less likely than men to undergo invasive procedures after admission to the hospital with a heart attack<\/a>, or to be treated with certain medications when they were discharged, such as aspirin<\/a>, beta blockers<\/a>, ACE inhibitors<\/a> and statins<\/a>.<\/p>\n “It’s important to note that overall most heart attacks<\/a> in people under the age of 50 occur in men. Only 19% of the people in this study were women. However, women who experience a heart attack at a young age often present with similar symptoms as men, are more likely to have diabetes<\/a>, have lower socioeconomic status and ultimately are more likely to die in the longer term,” Blankstein noted.<\/p>\n — Robert Preidt<\/p>\n![\"MedicalNews\"](\"https:\/\/images.medicinenet.com\/images\/HealthDay\/healthday.png\")
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