But later that night, Louise, who was 45 at the time, awoke in the night with chest pains and was blue-lighted to hospital. "When the paramedics arrived they said they thought I was having a heart attack. The British Heart Foundation has launched a new briefing, revealing the inequalities in awareness, diagnosis and treatment of heart attacks killing women in the UK. The charity estimates that around 17,000 women in the North East, like Louise, have survived a heart attack. Dr Babu-Narayan added one of the first steps in closing the gender gap is to raise national awareness of such inequalities and to tackle public perception of women and heart attacks.

Source: Daily Mirror October 14, 2019 21:11 UTC