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MUNICH, Germany — Women typically get heart disease much later than men but not if they smoke, researchers said Tuesday.
In fact, women who smoke have heart attacks nearly 14 years earlier than women who don’t smoke, Norwegian doctors reported in a study presented to the European Society of Cardiology. For men, the gap is not so dramatic; male smokers have heart attacks about six years earlier than men who don’t smoke.
“This is not a minor difference,” said Silvia Priori, a cardiologist at the Scientific Institute in Pavia, Italy. “Women need to realize they are losing much more than men when they smoke,” said Priori, who was not connected to the research.
