Women With Chest Pain Wait Longer for Emergency Care Than Men
Every second counts when you’re having a heart attack. But a new study suggests women with chest pain — one common heart attack symptom — wait about 11 minutes longer to get seen in the emergency room than men.Women of color fared even worse, waiting about 15 minutes longer than white women for initial evaluations, according to the new study, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.“Chest pain is the most common symptom of heart attack in adults of all ages,” says lead study author Darcy Banco, MD, chief resident for safety and quality in the department of medicine at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York City.“Despite a decline in the number of overall heart attacks, this number is rising among young adults,” Dr. Banco…