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COMMENTS: When a Woman’s Heart Breaks
ABC's John McKenzie (embargoed link) and NBC's Robert Bazell both covered heart disease research that found that female patients suffering from a severe type of cardiac arrest--ST Elevation--die at twice the rate of male patients. The pair of correspondents drew divergent lessons from the statistics, however. McKenzie, taking A Closer Look, concluded that women receive "standard vital treatment" less often in hospital emergency rooms. The women are given aspirin and betablockers and stents less often. Meanwhile, Bazell's cardiac experts told him that "women often have very different symptoms and do not seek treatment quickly."
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