Study: Women Face 20% Higher Risk of Death From Heart Failure After Heart Attack

A large Canadian study spanning nearly 45,000 patients has quietly confirmed what many in medicine have long suspected: the heart attack experience is not the same for women as it is for men. Women arrive older, carrying heavier burdens of chronic illness, and leave the hospital less often having received the full weight of specialist attention — a convergence of biological and systemic forces that raises their five-year risk of heart failure or death by 20 percent. The findings, drawn from nearly fifteen years of Alberta hospital records, ask not only what medicine knows about the female hear