Some little-known facts

Women who smoke are at risk of having a heart attack 19 years earlier than non-smoking women.

Women with diabetes are three to seven times more likely to have heart attacks.

Women are almost twice as likely as men to die after by-pass surgery.

Women often do not have the typical symptoms of angina (chest pain radiating to the arms) or other symptoms. associated with a heart attack. Therefore they are often not diagnosed correctly and in appropriate time.

Women are 20 per cent more likely than men to die in the hospital following a heart attack.

Women receive less aggressive treatment than men for their heart disease.