by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters
Perhaps you’ve heard the term “silent” heart attack. If you’ve experienced this cardiac event, you might recall having only mild cardiac symptoms at the time, or symptoms that didn’t feel like they were heart-related – or even no symptoms. In fact, you may be unaware that this has happened to you at all until later medical tests reveal evidence of heart muscle damage in the past. Continue reading “When you have a ‘silent’ heart attack”
Two cardiology reports landed in my inbox on the same day this past week, in the same issue of the same cardiology journal. The first was a Yale University study on how women, particularly women younger than age 55, fare worse after surviving a heart attack compared to male counterparts, partly because of a tendency to present with vague or atypical symptoms that can delay accurate diagnoses.(1) The second was about the future of the American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women® campaign.(2)* Both papers were published in the journal, Circulation.
The trouble was this: each report seemed to contradict the other. Continue reading “Let’s pretend that atypical heart attack symptoms don’t exist”
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