Percutaneous Interventions in Women, An Issue of Interventional Cardiology Clinics

Download or read book Percutaneous Interventions in Women, An Issue of Interventional Cardiology Clinics written by Annapoorna S. Kini and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2012-04-28 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heart disease is the leading cause of death among US women over the age of 65, resulting in more deaths than all forms of cancer combined. Women are less likely to survive heart attacks than are men, possibly because symptoms in women may differ and may be less recognizable. In addition, women consistently tend to have worse clinical outcomes in percutaneous coronary interventions than do men. For these reasons, an issue on percutaneous interventions in women is timely.