Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Introduction Cardiovascular diseases are usually known as men’s diseases, and many beliefs tend to assert that women are protected by their hormones before menopause. However, in France, women are suspected to die more than men due to acute cardiovascular disease. Purpose Our aim is to confirm this excess women mortality and to propose a new indicator in order to assess the probable delay in diagnosis and hospital care in acute cardiovascular settings among women. Methods We focused on major acute cardiovascular pathologies : Pulmonary Embolism (PE), Myocardial Infarction (MI) and Stroke. We compared males and females death numbers for these diseases. Deaths were age-standardized in order to assess mortality differences by sex. Then we suggested a new ratio which relates number of hospitalizations to number of deaths for each one of the three cardiovascular pathologies. Results Women died more than men from acute cardiovascular pathologies in France between 2000 and 2016. Stroke is the first cause of death from acute cardiovascular disease in women in 2016. Men’s Standardized Mortality Ratio (SMR) over women’s SMR was in favor of an excess man mortality when age bias is taken into account (SMR men/SMR women = 1,18 for PE, 1,25 for Stroke and 2,16 for MI). The new indicator (HD) was lower in women for Stroke and Myocardial Infarction (3,23 and 3,08 in females versus 5,05 and 4,72 in males, respectively). Conclusion Women in France die more than men from cardiovascular causes. This new indicator should contribute to a better understanding of delays in diagnoses and care in acute cardiovascular settings among women. Imperative measures should be taken in order to reverse the excess women mortality trend.