Women urgently need to catch up to men in Canada's health-care system because they are suffering and dying unnecessarily from heart disease, according to a new report. Women are five times more likely to die from heart disease than breast cancer, the report's authors say. "And these women, in particular, if they have a heart attack, are more likely than men to have a second heart attack or die within 12 months of that heart attack. Her father died at 53 from heart disease, and three siblings also had heart issues. Early heart attack signs are missed in about 78 per cent of women, according to Heart & Stroke.

Source: CBC News February 01, 2018 04:52 UTC