Women's death rate higher from severe heart attack

"Women who suffer the most severe form of heart attack are twice as likely as men to die in the hospital, a new study finds. The study of more than 78,000 people treated for heart attacks at 420 U.S. hospitals between 2001 and 2006 found the same overall in-hospital death rate for men and women. But 10.2 percent of women with a STEMI heart attack died, compared to 5.5 percent of men with the same diagnosis, said the report in the December 9 issue of the journal Circulation" - HealthDay News