'More women must get recommended treatments after heart attack to save lives'

Women must get the same treatment options as men after a heart attack to cut the number of female deaths, a charity has said.
Women are on average less likely than men to receive the recommended treatments after suffering a heart attack, research part-funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) suggests.
In terms of patients who die following a heart attack, the gap between the sexes "decreased dramatically" when women were given the same treatments offered to men, the charity said of the research published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
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