"Women are less likely than men to receive the appropriate treatment
after a heart attack and are more likely than men to die in the first
year after a heart attack."

Treating women:

• Women at High Risk
• Heart Attacks: The Female Facts

Learn more about treating heart disease:

• Heart Conditions including treatment options (En español)
• Medicines for cardiovascular disease (En español)
• Diagnostic Tests and procedures (En español)
• Heart Surgery overview and medical and surgical procedures (En español)
• Who are the Heart Doctors? (En español)

Ask a Texas Heart Institute Doctor . . .
 

. . . recent questions and responses 
      focused on women and heart disease.
    

• Will medications for depression treat high blood pressure? 
• How long after a STEMI [heart attack] is the heart done remodeling? 
• Can LV enlargement be caused by breastfeeding?
• Is there information about women like myself who have had an MI without risk factors present?
• Is my stress test okay? What is breast attenuation artifact?
• Shouldn't Plavix and aspirin protect me enough from a clot in my heart? 

Submit your own question to Ask the Heart Doctor or search previous postings.

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Updated April 2012