To ensure the health of this older population, we must begin to prevent high risk behaviour in younger women now. One in four female deaths is due to heart disease, said Professor Belch, adding that once diagnosed, women have a poorer outlook for recovery. And while there are some quite legitimate reasons for discrepancy there are factors specially affecting women which are ignored. But a Guildford GP with a special interest in heart disease, Dr Colin Lewis, disputed that heart care for women was necessarily worse.
Heart disease is essentially a disease of middle-aged men.
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