The British Heart Foundation found 8,200 women needlessly died of a heart attack in 10 years. But why, and what are the heart attack symptoms for women? Stylist investigates.

Heart attack in women: gender bias in healthcare

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Women are seven times more likely than men to be misdiagnosed and discharged in the middle of having a heart attack

Women’s pain and suffering is still too often dismissed as ‘all in her head’

More than 8,000 women’s lives could have been saved if they’d been treated equally to men

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Women’s pain and suffering is still too often dismissed as ‘all in our heads’.

Yentl syndrome: how this little-known gender bias could be costing women their lives