Higher Fatality Rate for Younger Women Having Heart Attacks Without Chest Pain
945 views · Published 13 March 2012 · 3:18 · Indexed 27 September 2026
Channel: Voice of America · 2012 · News & Politics
A study of the U.S. hospital records of more than a million people having heart attacks shows that women were more likely than men to be admitted without reporting the classic symptoms of chest pain...and they were also more likely than men of the same age to die in the hospital following a heart attack. VOA's Melinda Smith reports.
