
MONDAY, June 27, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Despite improvements in treatment for heart attacks, care lags behind for women.Women are still less likely to receive timely care, according to a new study that reviewed 450,000 patient records for two types of heart attacks."Heart attack treatments have come a long way but timely access to appropriate care is still an issue, especially for female patients," said lead author Dr. Juan Carlos Montoy, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.The research, published June 21 in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, included both ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) in California hospitals between 2005 and 2015.For the study, the researchers...