Women, blacks face larger loss of life expectancy after heart attack

Women and black patients lost more years of their expected life after a heart attack when compared to white men, according to a study. Previous research has looked at sex and racial differences in survival after a heart attack, but this was the first study to account for women's longer life expectancy in the general population and the shorter life expectancy of blacks.

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