From USA TODAY:
Women don’t hesitate to call 911 emergency help — for someone else. But when they’re the ones having a heart attack, only about half will make the call that could save their own lives…
A decade-long effort to raise awareness of women’s heart disease risks has been successful, Haynes says. But results of a survey by the American Heart Association last year caught health officials by surprise. It showed “a huge decline in the percentage of women who would call 911, down from 79% in 2006 to 50% in 2009,” Haynes says. “This was very alarming and there was no explanation for it.”
The survey showed “women don’t know if they’re having a heart attack,” says Lori Mosca, director of Preventive Cardiology at New York Presbyterian Hospital and a member of the expert panel working with HHS to develop the new campaign. It also found 78% of women would call 911 to save someone else, but if they’re the ones having symptoms, “less than half said they’d call 911.”
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