Although women tend to have heart attacks later in life, they die from them just as often as men – like Christina Sandera, Clint Eastwood’s longtime girlfriend (94), at age 61. Women are disadvantaged when it comes to heart disease, not only because of biological differences, but also in terms of medical care. What is a ‘female heart attack’?
That a heart attack is still seen as the disease of the stressed man “is simply wrong. There is an urgent need for a rethink – both among doctors and among women themselves,” emphasizes Dr. Margarethe Hochleitner, long-time director of the Institute for Gender Medicine and Diversity at MedUni Innsbruck in Tyrol. Prejudices and misjudgments are not only visible in the family doctor, but also in the emergency room. The fatal consequences are ultimately proven by the current mortality statistics.
Source: Krone
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