Doctors who know the impact of pregnancy complications on our cardiac risk

by Carolyn Thomas    ♥    @HeartSisters
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Because I didn’t seem to fit the profile of a person who’d just survived a widow maker heart attack, every cardiologist and nurse I met in the CCU (the intensive care unit for heart patients) asked me the same questions:
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“Do you have a family history of heart disease? Were you a smoker? Have you been diagnosed with diabetes?”

But not one person in the CCU asked me this question:

Have you ever experienced complications during pregnancy?”   

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