No one knows exactly. Many people wrongly think of heart attacks as a man s problem. It s not just a man s problem. Heart attacks don t discriminate by gender. Heart attack is the number one cause of death among women.
Women are more likely to die of heart attack than of any other cause.
They are almost three times more likely to die of heart attack than breast cancer. While men have more heart attacks, women catch up to men as they age. And women who do have heart attacks die of them more often than men. Around 44 percent of women who have heart attacks die within a year, compared to 27 percent of men. At older ages, women are twice as likely as men to die from heart attacks within a few weeks of the attack.