Jun

14

Why doesn’t the media portray women having heart attacks?

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radiator.gummi asked:


I realized that the media (movies, tv shows, etc) always depict men having heart attacks, never women. Heart disease is the #1 killer of women, don’t you think there would be more light shed on this subject?

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    No Responses to “Why doesn’t the media portray women having heart attacks?”

    1. gangadharan_nair on June 16th, 2010 9:34 pm

      Male sex (gender): Men have a greater risk of heart attack than women do, and they have attacks earlier in life. Even after menopause, when women’s death rate from heart disease increases, it’s not as great as men’s.

    2. bsg1 on June 19th, 2010 3:28 am

      yes i completely agree with you lots more should be done to highlight heart disease in women,women do have the added protection till menopause of ostegon,but this still does not stop women having heart attacks at early ages,it time the general public and government woke up to this worrying problem.

    3. Dominique R on June 19th, 2010 4:51 am

      My dad was in the heart op ward than men.
      The heart op ward than men.

    4. Lisa K on June 20th, 2010 4:38 am

      For age as any good statistician should do the risk is the risk is higher for them.
      The cause of death in men are still at much higher risk is the cause of heart disease than women it is higher risk.