http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/heart/9907/21/gender.heart/index.html

The article above explains how woman are more likely to die of a heart attack than men. The study showed that in men and women under 50 that woman were twice as likely to die from a heart attack. Three percent of the men in the study died and 6 percent of the women in the study died. The difference was less among older people.
144 out of 1000 men in between the ages of 70 and 74 died of a heart attack and 166 out of the 1000 women in the same age group died.