Women Are More Likely To Survive A Heart Attack If They Are Treated By A Female Doctor, Study Shows
Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of men and women alike in the United States. But it’s more often fatal for women — 26 percent of women 45 and older die within one year of an initial heart attack, compared with 19 percent of men, according to the American Heart Association.
There is one factor that just may save the lives of women who experience heart attacks, though. According to a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, women who have heart attacks may be more likely to die when treated by male doctors in emergency rooms. The study, which analyzed data from more than 500,000 male and female heart attack patients in Florida ERs between 1991 and 2010, found that female heart attack patients who were treated by female emergency room physicians were two to...