February is Heart Month! That’s a pretty good reason to remind yourself that women fare worse than men when experiencing a cardiac event. One possible reason is that it can be confusing to make sense of heart attack symptoms when they do hit. Instead of seeking immediate help for possible heart attack symptoms, we end up:
- toughing them out
- waiting to see if they go away
- blaming them on heartburn, muscle soreness, or other less serious non-cardiac causes
If the following 12 possible heart attack symptoms occur – alone or in combination, and especially if they are unusual for you – you must act immediately: (more…)
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