Women are more likely to die of heart failure than men – UAE News

In a recent study recently conducted in Canada, a group of researchers found that women were 14% more likely to die of heart failure than men.
The Canadian study found that women were more likely than men to enter the hospital because of heart disease.

While men were less likely to be hospitalized, the proportion of women with heart failure continued to increase. Experts fail when the heart muscle is too weak to pump blood to the body and deteriorates gradually, usually developing after a heart attack, or with other problems such as arrhythmias or high blood pressure.

Institute of the University of Ottawa for the study of the heart 90707 patients diagnosed with cardiac deficiency Between 2009 and 2014 [19659003] The researchers found that compared to men, women are more likely to die by 14% in one year of diagnosis of their condition. And that their chances of being hospitalized because of this condition are 7% higher than men.

"Other studies should focus on gender differences in disease risk, medical treatment, and treatment response to improve outcomes in women," says Dr. Louise Sun, one of the supervisors of the study. "Heart failure, a chronic disease that kills thousands every year in the UK Like Ontario, our numbers show that the condition often affects women differently than men, particularly in terms of living conditions." health associated with them. "

According to statistics, heart failure affects about 900,000 adults in the UK, with age, according to the Daily Mail.