Women With Angina Have Higher Mortality Rates

A new study by UK researchers has shown that women and South Asian people with typical pain were more likely than those with atypical pain to receive a diagnosis of angina pectoris

Women and South Asian people with typical pain were more likely than those with atypical pain to receive a diagnosis of angina pectoris and to have increased mortality rates or acute coronary complications, a new study by UK researchers has found.

In women and South Asians, both those with typical and atypical pain have lower rates of angiography and coronary interventions compared with men and white people respectively.

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Heart attack is the death of the heart muscle due to loss of blood supply. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Other names for heart attack include acute myocardial infarction, coronary thrombosis, and coronary occlusion.

In the study of 7784 South Asian and white people in the UK, researchers also found that more women than men and more South Asians compared with white people reported atypical chest pain and were less likely to receive a diagnosis of angina.

"Women and South Asian people with typical chest pain were at increased risk of adverse coronary outcomes compared with those who presented with atypical pain," said Dr. Justin Zaman of University College London and UK-based colleagues.

Differences in the description of symptoms did not account for the lower rates of intervention.

Animation of heart attack symptoms
Heart attack can cause symptoms such as Chest pain or discomfort, Shortness of breath and pain in neck, back, arm, or shoulder and is due to blockage of blood supply to the heart muscles

"Further study should examine why South Asians and white women with potentially the same adverse prognosis as men received poorer care," the researchers said.

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Angioplasty
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