Women experience different symptoms than men when it comes to heart disease. They're also more likely to get misdiagnosed, as experienced by California mom Mika Leah, who had a "widowmaker" blockage in her artery that caused symptoms initially attributed
Because women's heart attack symptoms can differ from men's, women might be diagnosed less often with heart disease than are men. Women are more likely than men to have a heart attack with no severe blockage in an artery (nonobstructive coronary artery disease). When to see a doctor If ...
Certain groups of people with heart disease experience atypical symptoms. Many women, people with diabetes, and elderly individuals do not experience pain as a symptom of heart disease. People in those groups are more likely to report fatigue or a general feeling of malaise as a symptom of hear...
Guestover a year ago My doctor "thinks" I may have heart blockage & I am scheduled for a stress test using dye in my veins while I am "walking" and when I am not. To me, I have no symptoms--I went to him because I was having some trouble breathing, no pain, no heaviness in...
Laxmi Mehta, MD Mehta is a cardiologist and director of preventative cardiology and women’s cardiovascular health at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus. Tabitha Moe, MD Moe is a cardiologist at HonorHealth in Phoenix. ...
Heart diseaseis the number one cause of death in women in the United States, yet women are more likely to encounter delays in establishing the diagnosis of heart attack than men. Part of that delay is the fact that women tend to minimize their myocardial infarction symptoms or ascribe them ...
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Heart diseaseis the number one cause of death in women in the United States, yet women are more likely to encounter delays in establishing the diagnosis of heart attack than men. Part of that delay is the fact that women tend to minimize their myocardial infarction symptoms or ascribe them ...
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