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Younger Women Fail to Heed Heart Attack's Warning Signs
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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 Both patients and doctors may be failing to connect the dots, the experts said. Just over one-third (38 percent) saw their primary provider for symptoms prior to having a heart attack. And only 56 percent of the women said their doctors said their symptoms were heart-related. And this was among a group of women almost all of whom had a family history of heart disease.
"This is really the first time research has focused on women aged less than 55," Steinbaum said. "The writing is on the wall. Don't attribute it to something else."
In related news, a second presentation at the same meeting found that patients with a hemorrhagic ("bleeding") stroke are significantly less likely to receive medications such as cholesterol-lowering drugs and counseling to prevent recurrent strokes compared to patients with an ischemic (clot-caused) stroke.
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The American Heart Association's Go Red for Women campaign has more on women and heart disease.
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Last updated 5/10/2007
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SOURCES: Judith Lichtman, Ph.D., assistant professor, epidemiology and public health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn; Suzanne Steinbaum, D.O., director, Women & Heart Disease, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City; Nieca Goldberg, M.D., medical director of the Women's Health Program at New York University Medical Center and author of The Women's Healthy Heart Program: Lifesaving Strategies for Preventing and Healing Heart Disease in Women; May 10, 2007, presentation, American Heart Association's 8th Scientific Forum on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke, Washington, D.C
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