Release date: 2009-08-05 According to the British "Daily Mail" report, the latest study found that female heart disease patients have twice the mortality rate after surgery. Although the overall mortality rate of heart disease has declined in recent years, this study shows that the difference in survival rates between male and female heart disease patients is expanding. The study also found that women with heart disease survived more than 5 years after surgery than men. Rushan Jinguo Food Co., Ltd , https://www.jinguofood.cn
The study was completed by the British and Irish Cardiovascular Surgery Association and is the largest study to date in the field. The researchers conducted a follow-up study of 400,000 heart surgery. Ben Bridgwater, of the University of South Manchester Hospital, is the author of the study, and he said the study confirmed previous findings. Previous studies have found that women with heart disease are usually more severe than men.
Ben-Bridgewater said that the cause of higher postoperative mortality in women with heart disease has not been identified, but women generally believe that heart disease is a "patent" for men and delaying treatment may be one of the reasons. Medical experts say that the clinical symptoms of female heart disease are not as typical as men. Male patients often suffer from chest tightness and compression and tightening as the main symptoms. Female heart disease patients mainly have back pain, abdominal pain, shortness of breath, nausea, indigestion or abnormal fatigue, which are often elusive. Moreover, the mortality rate of male patients has shown a downward trend, but the incidence of heart disease in women is increasing. According to European medical data, 55% of European women die of heart disease, compared with 43% of men.
Ben-Bridgewater also said, "Technical surgery is more difficult for women with heart disease because women have narrower coronary arteries." In the UK, coronary artery bypass surgery accounts for a large proportion of heart disease surgery, usually per Two of the 3 heart surgery operations were coronary artery bypass surgery. Ben-Bridgewater called on UK health care institutions to conduct further research on gender differences in survival rates for cardiac surgery. Meditech Medical Network