A recent study has revealed the surprising fact that despite the fact that cardiovascular diseases are one of the leading causes of death among women; nearly 50% of them would not place a 911 call if they think that they were suffering from symptoms of a cardiac arrest.

Also, this is just one of the many distressing findings of The Go Red for Women Study, which were revealed today. The study was funded by the American Heart Association, and aimed to analyze women's heart-health awareness and popular trends since 1997.

For the sake of study, researchers from the New York-Presbyterian Hospital carried out a survey of 2,300 women, all aged 25 and above, via telephone or online, in order to try and determine who knew that heart disease was the largest killer of women, and what they would do in case they are having a heart attack.

It was then discovered that despite the fact that women's awareness in the field had greatly increased over the past decade, it is still considerably low.

"We've made a lot of progress since 1997 [when the Go Red campaign first began], but we still have a long way to go. Only about half of women knew what heart attack symptoms are", said lead researcher Dr. Lori Mosca, Director of Preventive Cardiology at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.