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02-22-12, 10:38 PM
By Genevra Pittman
NEW YORK | Tue Feb 21, 2012
(Reuters Health) - Women, especially younger women, are more likely than men to show up at the hospital with no chest pain or discomfort after having a heart attack, a new study suggests.
Those symptoms, or lack of symptoms, can result in delayed medical care and differences in treatment that might in turn help explain why women in the study were also more likely to die of their heart attacks, according to researchers.
"They might not even know they're having a heart attack," said Dr. John Canto, from the Watson Clinic in Lakeland, Florida, who worked on the report.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/21/us-heart-attack-no-chest-pain-women-idUSTRE81K1VW20120221?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews
NEW YORK | Tue Feb 21, 2012
(Reuters Health) - Women, especially younger women, are more likely than men to show up at the hospital with no chest pain or discomfort after having a heart attack, a new study suggests.
Those symptoms, or lack of symptoms, can result in delayed medical care and differences in treatment that might in turn help explain why women in the study were also more likely to die of their heart attacks, according to researchers.
"They might not even know they're having a heart attack," said Dr. John Canto, from the Watson Clinic in Lakeland, Florida, who worked on the report.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/21/us-heart-attack-no-chest-pain-women-idUSTRE81K1VW20120221?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews