Males still tend to get earlier diagnoses of heart problems; awareness of symptom differences can help females catch up.

She had a heart attack in 1987 and needed angioplasty as much as the man next to her in the same emergency room. But she was only half as likely to undergo the procedure to open up a blocked coronary artery with a balloon-tipped catheter and restore the flow to her heart muscle.

She had an exercise stress test in 1989 revealing that she suffered coronary artery disease(CAD) and was equally at risk of a heart attack as the man sweating on the treadmill next to hers. But again, he was more likely to get the preventive care he needed, and within the next two years, she was about three…

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