MORE women than men tend to die shortly after a heart bypass surgery because they tend to seek for treatment very late, said Dr Lim Chong Hee, a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at the National Heart Centre.
In a study of 8,960 bypass surgeries performed from 1982 to 2001 he found that women were 1.5 times more likely to die than men within 30 days of the operation.
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