Women's heart attack treatments failing

WOMEN HEART

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Heart specialists say they're concerned by new figures showing women admitted to hospital with a type of serious heart attack are half as likely as men to get proper treatment.


The report, from the University of Sydney, also found that patients who die six months after discharge from hospital are twice as likely to be women.


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