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		<title>Heart attack: &#8220;Brushing it off as if it were nothing!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/02/13/stanford-university-heart-month/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heart Month]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stanford University]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[February is HEART MONTH!  Watch this compelling little 7-minute film featuring Stanford University heart patients and staff - and then please forward it on to every woman you care about.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=13772&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If I&#8217;d had my heart attack decades ago . . .</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/01/24/heart-attack-treatment-advances/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cardiology 101]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cardiology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history of cardiac care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women and heart attack]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From inventions like the cardiac pacemaker to the EKG or coronary stent, advances in the way heart patients are diagnosed and treated have changed the world of cardiology.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=13422&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Homicide in the E.R. &#8211; the tragic case of Beatrice Vance</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/01/20/beatrice-vance/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/01/20/beatrice-vance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beatrice Vance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[door to balloon protocol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Richard Keller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergency medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homicide in the E.R.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wenger Award for Excellence in Public Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women and heart attacks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here's what can happen when a brave doctor "challenges the medical dismissiveness directed at women in cardiac distress" - and when his coroner's inquest rules that a 49-year old woman's death in a hospital's E.R. waiting room was actually a case of homicide at the hands of the doctors and nurses who neglected to care for her.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=12691&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Could heart disease have its roots in your mother&#8217;s womb?</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/01/16/barker-hypothesis-chronic-disease/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/01/16/barker-hypothesis-chronic-disease/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women&#039;s cardiac risk factors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barker Hypothesis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. David Barker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harvard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[origins of chronic disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weight gain during pregnancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weight restrictions during pregnancy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let's consider what is known as "The Barker Hypothesis", which is British physician and epidemiologist Dr. David Barker's theory that the roots of future chronic conditions like heart disease stem from a developing baby’s environment in the womb.  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=12677&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My heart attack story in Ladies Home Journal</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/01/13/ladies-home-journal/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/01/13/ladies-home-journal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amelia Harnish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healthy Heart Action Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heartburn or heart attack?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ladies Home Journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women and heart attacks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As part of Ladies Home Journal's special 'Heart Month' online edition, I was interviewed by the magazine about surviving a heart attack. Check out their article called "Heartburn or Heart Attack?"<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=13449&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Misdiagnosis: the perils of &#8220;unwarranted certainty&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/01/08/unwarranted-certainty/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/01/08/unwarranted-certainty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diagnosing - and misdiagnosing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diagnosing and misdiagnosing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diagnosis momentum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. E. James Potchen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Jerome Groopman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EKG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How Doctors Think]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Renee Fox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[search satisfaction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unwarranted clinical certainty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Jerome Groopman, in his must-read book called "How Doctors Think", writes: "Physicians, like everyone else, display certain psychological characteristics when they act in the face of uncertainty. There is the over-confident mindset: people convince themselves they are right because they usually are. Specialists in particular are known to demonstrate unwarranted clinical certainty. They have trained for so long that they begin too easily to rely on their vast knowledge and can overlook the variability in human biology.”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=13200&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Gaslighting&#8217; &#8211; or, why women are just too darned emotional during their heart attacks</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/11/25/gaslighting/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/11/25/gaslighting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diagnosing - and misdiagnosing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Robin Stern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergency Department]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gaslight tango]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gaslighting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[misdiagnosis of heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women's heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yashar Ali]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Those who engage in "gaslighting" create a reaction - whether it's anger, frustration, embarrassment -  in the person they are speaking to. Then, when that person reacts, the gaslighter makes them feel uncomfortable and insecure by behaving as if their feelings are not "rational" or "normal".<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=12861&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;But what about the men?!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/11/21/but-what-about-the-men/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/11/21/but-what-about-the-men/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diagnosing - and misdiagnosing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart disease gender differences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katherine Leon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laura Haywood-Cory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mayo clinic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Heart attack survivor Laura Haywood-Cory writes: "Women don't want to take away the piece of the pie for men (access to accurate cardiac diagnosis and correct treatment).  We just want to ensure that everyone has pie. 
"And everyone wants pie, right?"<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=12653&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yale Heart Study asks why we wait so long before seeking help in mid-heart attack</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/11/17/yale-heart-study-asks-why-we-wait-so-long-before-seeking-help-in-mid-heart-attack/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/11/17/yale-heart-study-asks-why-we-wait-so-long-before-seeking-help-in-mid-heart-attack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Signs of a Heart Attack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[angina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cumulative adversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Angelo Alonzo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Institutes of Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[post traumatic stress disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PTSD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yale Heart Study]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Yale Heart Study is currently recruiting 2,300 heart attack survivors over the age of 35 for important answers to the question: "Why the heck do we wait so long before seeking help in the middle of a heart attack?" If you or somebody you know qualifies to participate, please consider doing so today.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=12735&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The sad reality of women&#8217;s heart disease hits home</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/10/28/the-sad-reality-of-womens-heart-disease-hits-home/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/10/28/the-sad-reality-of-womens-heart-disease-hits-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diagnosing - and misdiagnosing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bobbe Wood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canadian cardiovascular congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diagnosing and misdiagnosing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Bruce McManus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Graeme Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Karin Humphries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Sharonne Hayes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Heart Truth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I returned home after covering the 46th Annual Canadian  Cardiovascular Congress in Vancouver, I felt both inspired - and terribly discouraged. Why, for example, out of over 700 scientific papers presented at this conference, could I count on one hand those that were focused even remotely on women and heart disease?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=12524&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A heart film to watch before the &#8220;Pink Season&#8221; gets here</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/09/26/elizabeth-banks-heart-film/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/09/26/elizabeth-banks-heart-film/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Signs of a Heart Attack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Heart Association film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breast cancer awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just a Little Heart Attack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pinktober]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pinkwashing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Think Before You Pink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women and heart disease]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Heart disease is the #1 killer of women, and kills six times more women than breast cancer does each year. Yet the upcoming breast cancer awareness  'pinkwashing' campaign can overshadow the reality of our biggest health threat. Watch this MUST-SEE 3-minute film by Elizabeth Banks called "Just A Little Heart Attack" for a hilarious yet frighteningly realistic look at how women tend to ignore their hearts.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=12171&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;All the SCAD ladies, put your hands up!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/09/06/scad-mayo-research/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/09/06/scad-mayo-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diagnosing - and misdiagnosing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Sharonne Hayes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katherine Leon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laura Haywood-Cory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mayo Women's Heart Clinic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SCAD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spontaneous coronary artery dissection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women and heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WomenHeart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WomenHeart Science & Leadership Symposium For Women With Heart Disease]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["Nobody wants to hear they're a fluke."  Here's how two women diagnosed with a rare and often fatal heart condition used their WomenHeart online patient support forum to spur a Mayo Clinic research trial on their deadly disease.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=11988&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;God punishes bad children!&#8221; &#8211; or, why you have heart disease</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/09/02/god-punishes-bad-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 11:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Living with heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is serious illness a punishment from God? Or just a spiritual lesson you need to learn?  Maybe it's the result of negative karma from a past life? Or is it caused by your repressed emotions? Here are 10 cultural and healing traditions that try to explain the "WHY ME?" eternal question about being sick. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=11665&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heart disease = most costly condition for women</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/08/21/heart-disease-most-costly-condition-for-women/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 11:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[heart disease costly for women]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[top 10 most expensive conditions for women]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women's heart disease trumps cancer, mental illness, trauma injuries and all other medical conditions when it comes to paying the bills.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=11556&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How swearing during a heart attack can ease the pain</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/08/01/swearing-heart-attack-pain/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/08/01/swearing-heart-attack-pain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Claudia Umland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Richard Stephens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart attack symptoms]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pain research]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We know that swearing can actually help to reduce the feeling of pain, but new research suggests that an explosion of foul language works best to control pain only for those who rarely resort to cursing and swearing in normal everyday life.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=11229&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can denial ever be a good thing for heart patients?</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/07/20/useful-denial-heart-patients/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heart disease and mental health issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living with heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ignoring heart attack symptoms]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Refusing to face reality might seem blatantly unhealthy. But in some cases, according to the world-famous Mayo Clinic, a little denial can actually be a good thing. Being in denial for a short period can even be a healthy coping mechanism, giving us time to adjust to a painful or stressful issue - like a heart disease diagnosis.  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=11330&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I started vomiting, and it turned out to be a heart attack&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/07/04/vomiting-heart-attack/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/07/04/vomiting-heart-attack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Signs of a Heart Attack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exercise after a heart attack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart attack symptoms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maxine Levy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maxine was just 41 years old when she awoke in the middle of the night with nausea and cold sweats. She chalked up her symptoms to something she had eaten - until she remembered her aunt's corned beef sandwich story. When she woke up her husband to tell him she might be having a heart attack, his reply was: "Have you lost your mind?"<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=10780&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Surprising trends in women&#8217;s heart disease</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/06/30/trends-in-womens-heart-disease/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cardiology 101]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cardiac research on women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cardiac risk factors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diastolic function]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Tracy L. Stevens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gingivitis and heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though women have come a long way, baby, cardiologists are still practicing medicine based on cardiac studies performed mostly on white, middle-aged men. And with death rates from cardiovascular disease now rising in women from 35 to 45 years of age, it's time to pay closer attention to emerging new trends in women's heart health care, from oral health to birth control pills and hormone replacement therapy.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=8332&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You know you have heart disease when . . .</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/05/17/you-know-you-have-heart-disease-when/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 11:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living with heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["You know you have heart disease . . .  when you're not sure if your phone's on 'vibrate' or you're in AFib!" Sit back and enjoy the way 46 insiders living with heart disease finish off this sentence, in ways that are both hilarious and poignant. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=10606&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting help during a heart attack: &#8216;delayers&#8217; vs &#8216;survivors&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/05/13/delaying-vs-surviving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 11:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diagnosing - and misdiagnosing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[call 911 for heart attack]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[People who feel embarrassed about calling 911 in case their heart attack symptoms turn out to be not serious are called 'delayers'.  But those who would rather be embarrassed than dead are called 'survivors'. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=10098&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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