Ron Winslow (2007), reporting in the Wall Street Journal, describes (but does not identify) a "Minnesota study" presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of SAEM (Society for Academic Emergency Medicine). The study suggests that rural men are less likely than rural women to call 911 at the sign of a heart attack. Urban men and women called 911 at ( Read more... )

Men's arteries are bigger than women's, even after correcting for height and weight, according to Osterweil (2007) on MedPageToday.com. Osterweil cites two articles from this month's issue of the journal Circulation (Milicent et al,2007; Andersen & Pepine, 2007) which examine gender differences in women's recovery from acute myocardial infarction ( Read more... )