Heart failure deaths affect more women in Canada

The researchers badyzed more than 90,000 patients diagnosed with the disease in the province of Ontario, over a five-year period from 2009, the survey has been expanded, which appeared in the Canadian Medical Association Journal

They found that women were more likely to be hospitalized and were more likely to die because of the disease, confirmed the Study, quoted by the newspaper The Globe and Mail.

of premature death of women at the national level, in February he launched another investigation; According to the experts, the badessed patients were older and more fragile than their male counterparts and tended to have a higher socio-economic status. Low

Dr. Louise Sun, an anesthesiologist at the Ottawa University Institute of Cardiology and lead author of the study, said the new data is raising awareness that Men and women are "different" when it deals with vital muscle health.

Heart failure occurs when there is an imbalance between the heart's ability to pump blood and the needs of the body.

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