Heart disease symptoms in women

The European Heart Journal has published recently results of a study found that long-term heart attack survival is not controlled by gender, but in the short-term women are more likely to die than men from heart attack.
Women’s most killer in the west is heart disease, actually heart disease kills more women than men. “Women are less likely to have a heart attack than men, despite heart attack emergence increases with age” said Dr. Vernon V. S. Bonarjee.
The researches tested the short- and long-term sex-related variations in survival between high-risk patients with heart attack. An overall of 5,477 subjects were followed for a mean of 2.7 years.
By comparing, women were older than men and they had more heart disease symptoms, high blood pressure and cholesterol. Moreover, women who were treated with clot-busting drugs were fewer.
A total of 619 men and 327 women died during the study. As mention, there were no differences between men and women in long-term survival, but the death rate in women was higher than men by 57%.
The usual symptoms of heart attack may be missing in women which leads to a late in treatment and, therefore the results are worse in women.
As the study found heart disease symptoms could be missing in women, so they should be careful and heart disease check regularly.

Influenza injection is suggested for heart disease patients

The American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology has recently suggested that heart disease patients to get injection against influenza once a year. They say it could reduce infirmity of heart disease and death rates between the patients. However, those patients must not take the nasal-spray flu vaccine.
It has been proved from several reports that taking injection against influenza once a year can reduce death rates in all ranges of age for people with heart disease. The ratio of patients who had a flu shot in 2005 was one to three adults.
Dr. Matthew M. Davis, lead author of the study and an internist at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, said:” we can save hundreds of people from death and thousands from influenza, if we injected at least 60% of cardiac disease patients in the US who are about 13.2 million patients. He also added:” although most heart disease patients visit their doctors in the time that they should get the influenza injection, the influenza injection can be found only in half of the cardiologists clinics.