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Why Is Women's Heart Disease Overlooked? A Woman's Journey To Recovery

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Westminster, MD

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Why is women's heart disease overlooked? A woman's journey to recovery | News
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Women's heart disease is often overlooked due to several factors:

- Different Symptoms: Women may experience heart attack symptoms that differ from the classic chest pain seen in men. Symptoms like intense fatigue, nausea, and back pain can be mistaken for other conditions
- Small Vessel Disease: Women are more likely to Show Full Answer

Women's heart disease is often overlooked due to several factors:

- Different Symptoms: Women may experience heart attack symptoms that differ from the classic chest pain seen in men. Symptoms like intense fatigue, nausea, and back pain can be mistaken for other conditions.
- Small Vessel Disease: Women are more likely to develop blockages in small blood vessels, which are harder to detect on standard tests like angiograms.
- Silent Heart Attacks: Women, especially those with type 2 diabetes, are more likely to have "silent" heart attacks with no obvious symptoms.

Recovery for women involves recognizing these unique symptoms and seeking care from cardiologists experienced in treating women.

July 10
A MyHeartDiseaseTeam Member

Specialties, specialists, more and more narrow areas of expertise? Next? Doctors specially trained to treat only blue eyed blond women who are left handed, have a history of peanut allergies and are gluten, lactose intolerant? Check the boxes and AI will print out a plan of care, medications, physical therapy, psychological counseling up the the maximum your insurance will pay, 60 percent of all medical is paid by government anyway?

July 10

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