How we define heart attacks puts women at risk. That's about to change

Every day at least 150 people are hospitalised experiencing a heart attack.

And research suggests that if you're a woman in one of those hospital beds, you're likely to experience roadblocks getting timely treatment.

Thanks to a complex web of cultural and clinical blind spots, there's a gender gap in heart attack health care — researchers estimate that 20 per cent of heart attack deaths in women could be avoided.

Last week peak heart health bodies from around the world endorsed a new definition of heart attack that could help tackle this.