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| Heart Attack Symptoms Women |
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The first problem that women have with heart attack symptoms is the non-recognition of those symptoms by competent doctors. For decades doctors have believed two fairy tales. The first is that women are nothing more than little men. Doctors believed that the biology of women is the same as men except smaller versions of them.
The second misconception is that women do not get heart attacks. Again this is a fantasy that was not only accepted, but taught into medical schools until about 20 years ago. Medical researchers now have information and statistics that confirm that women get heart disease and attacks as often as men, only at a later age (about 10 years) after men begin to get theirs.
Women seem to be protected from heart attacks during the child-bearing years, but when that is over, they catch up very quickly to the men. Also once in the emergency room, women have a high rate of being miss-diagnosed for heart attacks, and even sent home while experiencing them.
You will notice from looking below that heart attack symptoms are different for men than they are for women. Let’s see: |
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- As in a man, a woman might feel fullness or a squeezing pain in the center of the chest. Once this is experienced, she might feel the pain projecting itself into the jaw of the face, the neck, or even the shoulders.
- A man and a woman can also experience discomfort in the chest. This can be accompanied by shortness of breath, or nausea, sweating, even fainting.
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| Different women experience heart attacks in different locations |
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- Here’s where you have to watch it. As many as 40% of woman feel no acute chest pain. For men, this is so common that when a woman does not complain of chest pain, the heart attack is misdiagnosed.
- A woman will also suspect a heart attack as being a stomach ailment when it is accompanied by fatigue, or pressure in the lower chest, and shortness of breath.
- In one widely lauded study, it was found that almost 60% of the time a woman reports shortness of breath, weakness 55%, and fatigue 43% of the time.
- Back pain is a symptom for women
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| Some women experience the pain in their backs or necks |
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- Discomfort in the upper abdomen, or pressure, both of which feel like indigestion
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Once a woman experiences a heart attack, she is likely to have inferior treatment to that of a man. This is a result of doctors having an incorrect understanding of the biology of a woman’s heart attack. |
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Once a woman experiences a heart attack, she is likely to have inferior treatment to that of a man. This is a result of doctors having an incorrect understanding of the biology of a woman’s heart attack.
As the chart below demonstrates it is less likely that women will receive the appropriate treatment for a heart attack than a man. They also will not receive as timely a treatment as a man as well |
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