One in 14 men having a heart attack drive themselves to hospital — and get there quicker than do women
Monday, May 29th, 2006Seven per cent of men having a heart attack drove themselves to hospital and only 60 per cent went by ambulance, according to research published in Journal of Advanced Nursing in Feburary.
The study, which looked at 890 heart attack patients admitted to six major teaching hospitals in Dublin, Southern Ireland, also found that it took women five times as long as men to (more…)
