– Women have a significantly harder time recovering both physically and mentally from coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery than their male counterparts and these differences cannot be explained by illness severity, presurgery health status or other patient characteristics, according to a study in the January 15th Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
“We know that women have a higher mortality after CABG than men, but there are very little data on how women do in terms of functioning and quality of life and what their own experiences are in the recovery phase,” lead investigator Dr. Viola Vaccarino of Emory University in Atlanta told Reuters Health.
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