Fatal Myocardial Infarction

Women often suffer a fatal heart attack than men. One reason for this is that the underlying disease in women can be diagnosed severe explained Prof. Vera Regitz-Zagrosek, director of the Institute of Gender Studies (GIM) at the Charité Berlin, on the occasion of the joint symposium "Gender Medicine" of the German Society for Gender Medicine and the GIM.

As for men and women are "the main reasons for a heart attack, obesity, diabetes and smoking, "says Prof. Regitz-Zagrosek. However, the women show, according to the expert, in the run often different symptoms than male heart attack patients. As a result, the diagnosis is made ​​difficult circumstances significantly, resulting in an adverse effect on the survival rate of patients. women with atypical heart attack symptoms with approximately 60,000 deaths are heart attacks one of the leading causes of death in Germany. Women are subject to it, according to the director of GIM at particular risk. For while men usually have the typical symptoms, like a pain in the chest and chest pain that may radiate to the back, shoulders, arms and upper abdomen, women show more atypical symptoms, such as fatigue , sweating and back pain . Jaw pain in women can also might indicate a heart attack, said Professor Regitz-Zagrosek. Due to the very diverse symptoms that occur in the course of myocardial infarction in women, it is often difficult for physicians to make the right diagnosis, the director of the GIM. Difficult diagnosis of heart attack patients addition to the difficulties in diagnosis arise in heart attack patients often also have problems in the course of drug treatment after a heart attack, said the expert. Not infrequently, the drugs of women affected were taken at high doses, there is no gender-based drug development is practiced, according to Prof. Regitz-Zagrosek. There is no possibility for gender dosage, should the doctors set taking into account the lower weight and increased body fat percentage of patients, a dosage, explained the expert. heart attacks prevented by healthy lifestyle for men and women is equally true that by a healthy lifestyle with a balanced diet , lots of exercise or sports and a renunciation of smoking, the risk of a heart attack can be minimized. Also typical pre-existing conditions such as high blood pressure or coronary artery disease could be avoided by a healthy lifestyle generally. Enter the first chest pain on the damage of the organ, however, are often already well advanced and irreversible. This can be avoided by switching the lifestyle only a further deterioration of health, a restoration of full cardiac function is no longer attainable.

Fatal Myocardial Infarction

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