WOMEN who experience the chest pains typical of angina are at higher risk of more serious heart conditions than was thought.
Angina is commonly believed to be more common in men than in women, but a study of more than 100,000 people with angina in Finland aged between 45 and 89 showed it to be equally common in both. What’s more, women with the symptoms of angina are more likely than men to be told they are caused by stress, and so are not tested for any underlying heart disease. These women were more likely to die than people who…
