Mortality by infarction is lower in men and higher in women

In the last decades, mortality by MI infarction has seen a reduction in men but keeps increasing in women and one of the reasons points out symptoms are more visible in men, which results in better and effective treatment for men.

According to official data, a total of 380,000 women suffer heart attacks in the US every year; this happens every 90 seconds and, every two minutes, one of these patients dies.

Symptoms in men are better identified by the general public: oppressive chest pain shooting from the left side to the jaw and left arm. Women tend to detect infarction symptoms four hours later than men. Both women and doctors do not recognize symptoms effectively and appropriately and this delays proper treatment. Obesity and diabetes also favor the increase of heart attacks and reduces incidence by age. 

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