Women Who Have Heart Attacks Benefit From Opening Artery

Washington (dbTechno) - According to a new study, women who suffer a heart attack receive just as much benefit as men when going through a procedure to open up their clogged arteries, known as catheterization.

The new study was carried out by the TIMI Research Group at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

What they found was that for a women to receive the same benefit as men from the procedure, they need to have had enough heart damage for it to actually be classified as a heat attack.

Those who did not suffer a full-out heart attack did not receive as much benefit from the procedure to open up their clogged arteries.

The procedure works by sticking a thin wire with a balloon at the end into the location of a clot blocking in an artery. The balloon is blown up, allowing blood to once again pass through.

Women who went through the artery-opening treatment, or catheterization, had a 19% reduced death risk than those who had a more conservative drug treatment. The benefit for men was a 27% reduced death risk.

The study was published in the July 2 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.