The Business Journals

Atrium Health’s female cardiologists lead the way in improving women’s heart health

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in women in the ...
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Women survive a heart attack more often when their doctor is female, study finds

Much like shoes or skinny jeans, heart attacks can fit women a little differently than men. Their symptoms don’t always look the same, and for a meshwork of reasons, physicians all too often fail to ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Women More Likely to Survive Heart Attacks When Treated by Female Physicians

A recent review of nearly 582,000 heart attack cases over the span of 19 years found that female patients had a significantly higher survival rate when treated by a female physician in the emergency ...
Harvard Business School

Think You’re Having a Heart Attack? If You’re a Woman, Insist on a Female Physician, Says New Study by Harvard Business School Professor and Colleagues

BOSTON—If you’re a woman and having a heart attack (what’s called in medical parlance an “acute myocardial infarction” or AMI), do your best to make sure you’re treated by a female physician. It’s ...
MarketWatch

Why women having heart attacks are better off with female doctors

Get this woman a woman -- stat. Female heart attack patients have better survival rates when they’re treated by female doctors than they do with male doctors, according to a new study published in the ...