If you're a woman having chest pain or shortness of breath, it'll take longer for you to be evaluated by EMS and taken to the emergency room than if you're a man. This finding was reported this month's Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, and summarized for the lay public in the New York Times. What's worse is that even if women get to the emergency room quickly, a heart attack diagnosis is made much slower than in men.
What this article doesn't address, however,
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