Dr. Barry Dworkin

Study suggests women are not receiving the same high level of care for heart disease as men in Sweden.

Health Headlines Commentary for January 9, 2018

Source:

Heart attack care dangerously unequal for women, study finds

Reference:

Alabas OG, Gale CP, Hall M, et al. Sex Differences in Treatments, Relative Survival, and Excess Mortality Following Acute Myocardial Infarction: National Cohort Study Using the SWEDEHEART Registry Journal of the American Heart Association. Published online December 14 2017

Analysis:

Do women fare worse than men after a heart attack?

 

 

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