Health | Delay in treatment, ignorance of symptoms: underestimated heart attacks in women

2023-06-14 14:06:28

She was 62 and was due to retire next month. But the teacher of the Athéna school in Marseille died of cardiac arrest last week as she returned from a school outing with her class. The tragic death of this kindergarten teacher is a sad reminder that women’s hearts are more vulnerable than we think. Myocardial infarction has become, in recent years, the leading cause of death among women ahead of breast cancer. Worse, it would affect less men but more and more women before the age of 60. A finding confirmed by cardiologist Patrick Khanoyan, coordinator of the Federation of Cardiology at Saint-Joseph Hospital in Marseille. “In France, 16,000 people are m

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