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Younger Women Often Miss Signs of Heart Attack
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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 "A lot of women were triaged for a regular visit or, even in the ER, were being looked up for a lot of things other than a heart attack," Lichtman said.
Ironically, for some women, it was actually a relief to know that they were having a heart attack, that finally the mystery was over, Lichtman said.
Lichtman and her colleagues will be looking at this issue in more depth in a U.S. National Institutes of Health-funded study enrolling 2,000 women under 55 and 1,000 men in the same age range.
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"A little bit of empowerment goes a long way," Steinbaum said. "Knowing your risk and knowing the potential for heart disease, seeking early care for symptoms that are really unclear and then saying, 'I am at risk for heart disease, please help me' becomes important in the paradigm of how this needs to develop."
More information
Visit the American Heart Association's Go Red For Women for more on women and heart disease.
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Last updated 5/2/2008
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SOURCES: Judith Lichtman, Ph.D., associate professor, epidemiology and public health, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.; Suzanne Steinbaum, D.O., director, Women and Heart Disease, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City; May 2, presentation, American Heart Association's Scientific Forum on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke, Baltimore
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