Younger women with heart attacks face higher death risk - Health & wellness - The Boston Globe

bostonglobe.com: : While younger women rarely have heart attacks, those who do face a greater risk of dying while in the hospital compared with men -- especially if they don’t present with the classic symptom: chest pain. That’s according to a study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which found that about 16 percent of women under 65 who had heart attacks without chest pain died in the hospital compared with 12.5 percent of men under 65.




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