Women are more likely than men to die in hospital from severe heart attack
Monday, December 8, 2008 - 17:43
in Health & Medicine
Men and women have about the same in-hospital death rate for heart attack — but women are twice as likely to die if hospitalized for a more severe type of heart attack, according to a report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
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