From myocardial infarction women more likely to die

Analyzing the data of patients admitted to US hospitals between 1994 and 2006, experts from the Watson Clinic (Florida) found that the diagnosis of "myocardial infarction" set mostly to women under the age of 55 years. True, 1, 1 million hospitalizations of the fairer sex was only one-third. But death took them more often (14, 6% of women vs. 10, 3% of men).

Scientists have found that many hospitalized with myocardial infarction   in medical institutions, did not complain of chest pain. Among women, the characteristic symptom of the disease have not experienced 42% of the 480,000 patients clinics. Such hidden course of the disease is most common in women under the age of 55 years. The older the patient, as well as men, most of them complained of discomfort in the heart.

Study leader, John Kentou suggested that the reason for these differences - hormonal changes. According to him, with the onset of menopause in women no longer produce estrogen. Thus, the old ladies myocardial infarction   It may be associated with the development of atherosclerosis, whereas in young and middle age of the disease leads to thrombosis or vasospasm in heart.

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