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2021 posts
JANUARY 2021
Most-read Heart Sisters posts from a crazy year
Why you must stop saying “Well, at least. . .”
Saying the word “misdiagnosis” is not doctor-bashing
Cardiac research and the mystery of the missing facts
FEBRUARY 2021 ♥ It’s HEART MONTH!
The weirdest stuff I’ve learned about women’s heart disease
Women’s heart disease: wrong symptoms, wrong words or wrong diagnostic tools?
Bereavement eating: does grief cause carb cravings?
Heart disease: decades in the making
MARCH 2021
A children’s book about living with an open heart surgery scar
MAY 2021
When heart disease wears a smile
When we expect to die, but don’t
Heart attack symptoms: what women expect vs. what we get
Change your story, change the storyteller
How could YOU – of all people! – have a heart attack?
JUNE 2021
Panic attack – or heart attack?
Why your own story is not scientific data
A tale of two studies – 268 years apart
This is your heart in hot weather
JULY 2021
Did you underestimate your cardiac risk?
Heavy menstrual cycles and those anticoagulant drugs you’re taking
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See the archives of all previous HEART SISTERS posts from 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, or 2020.
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NOTE FROM CAROLYN: My book A Woman’s Guide to Living with Heart Disease (Johns Hopkins University Press) reads like the “best of” my 900+ Heart Sisters blog articles. You can order it (paperback, hardcover or e-book) at your favourite bookshop (please support your local independent retailer!) or at Amazon. If you order it directly from Johns Hopkins University Press (use their code HTWN), you can save 20% off the list price.
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