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Heart attack treatment more dangerous for women.
2004 AUG 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In a recent study of heart attack patients, researchers in Taiwan found that women who receive primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) are less likely to survive than men who undergo the same procedure.
PCI is the method of widening a blood vessel by inserting a balloon into the clogged blood vessel following a heart attack. When researchers followed 1032 heart attack patients (158 women and 874 men) for 30 days following the procedure, they found that women had a significantly higher mortality rate of 14.6%, compared to 7.4% in men, even though both genders had the same PCI insertion success rate.
Cheng-I Cheng and colleagues at the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, attributed the gender gap in outcome differences to female ...
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