Women more likely to die after heart attack treatment, say researchers

Findings are explained as a possible result of women tending to be older when they suffer heart attacks and the fact that they are more likely to be diabetic

Women are more likely to die following heart attack treatment than men, research has found.

They are also less likely to have an angioplasty procedure, a procedure to widen blocked or narrowed coronary arteries to get the blood back flowing to the heart, a study carried out by the Paris Cardiovascular Research Centre discovered.