Women ‘more likely to die after heart surgery’

Women are more likely to die following heart attack treatment than men, research has found.

They are also less likely to have an angioplasty procedure, a study carried out by the Paris Cardiovascular Research Centre discovered.

Experts said this could be down to the fact that women tend to be older when they suffer heart attacks, and are also more likely to be diabetic. But they suggested fewer females receiving angioplasty treatment – a procedure to widen blocked or narrowed coronary arteries – could be down to the “wrong attitude of physicians”.