-And women are less likely to survive a cardiac arrest
Women who have a cardiac arrest are less likely than men to receive potentially life-saving procedures such as angiography to look for blocked coronary arteries or angioplastyto open them, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association (AHA)/American Stroke Association.
The study indicates such procedures have helped boost cardiac arrest survival rates, said Luke Kim, M.D., study lead author and assistant professor of medicine in the cardiology division of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. “But the troublesome part of our paper is that just as with many other treatments we’re still not doing as good a job with women as men. Women tend to get less immediate care when time is essential.”