Why are women less likely to be resuscitated?
Bystanders have a different reaction to seeing a woman collapse compared with a man
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Women having a cardiac arrest are less likely to be resuscitated by bystanders and less likely to survive to hospital discharge than men, research suggests.
In a population-based cohort study, researchers analysed data from 5700 out-of-hospital cardiac arrest cases, 28% of which occurred in women.