Delays in Treating Women’s Heart Attacks

Emergency teams may not get women having heart attacks to the hospital as fast as men, a study finds. The study included 5,887 emergency calls for possible heart attack symptoms. All the calls took place in Dallas County, Texas, in 2004. On average, women got to the hospital about 2 minutes later than men. That amount of time probably didn’t affect care. But women also were much more likely than men to be delayed 15 minutes or more. Delays that long could be harmful. HealthDay News wrote about the study January 13. It was in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.