Young women less likely to return to work after heart attacks

By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) - Young women are less likely than men to have returned to work a year after a heart attack, mostly due to social and economic factors, suggests new research. "When you adjust for (those factors), men and women actually return to work at a similar rate," said Dr. Leslie Cho, who directs of the Cleveland Clinic’s Women’s Cardiovascular Center. The researchers write in a special issue of Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes focusing on w