Younger women prone to Heart attacks than Men
 

Heart Attack in Young Women:According to a study which was published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology it has been found that younger women are more likely to die of heart attacks when compared to men. Aakriti Gupta, an Indian-origin researcher at the Yale School of Medicine, has found that women who have longer hospital stays are more likely to die in the hospital after a heart attack when compared to men. 

In the study, the team analyzed 230,684 hospitalizations for heart attack in patients in the age group of 30 to 54 years. The study found that heart attack hospitalization rates for patients under age 55 have not declined as quickly as they have for Medicare-age patients, which have seen a 20 percent drop. Men were more likely to have high cholesterol while women, especially black women, were more likely to also have hypertension, diabetes and heart failure. "This shows that we need to raise awareness of the importance of controlling cardiovascular risk factors like diabetes, high blood pressure and smoking in younger patients," Gupta said.

It would advisable to be check the cardiovascular risk factors, which includes early identification and treatment of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, smoking and diabetes in younger women at an early stage.