Women And Heart Disease

Ischemic Heart Disease
What is Ischemic Heart Disease?

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Five Things You Should Know About Women and Heart Disease

Women and Heart Disease Fact # 1: An Equal Opportunity Killer

Gone are the days when women could declare heart disease a man's problem. Heart disease is currently the leading cause of death for women as well as men in the United States. One in every three women will die of problems related to heart disease. Now, women also have to worry about heart disease younger than ever before. Heart disease is the third leading cause of death among women ages 25-44, and the second leading cause of death among women ages 45-64.

Women and Heart Disease Fact # 2: Ethnicity Matters

Black women are more likely to die of heart disease than are Caucasian women. Researchers believe this is related to the higher levels of obesity, high blood pressure (hypertension), and diabetes in African-American women.

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Symptoms that Women with Heart Disease May Have

Research shows that women experience heart attack symptoms different than those of men. Men typically experience a crushing chest pain that radiates to their left arm. Women are more likely to experience pain in the jaw, neck, or back. Some women experience no pain at all, but find themselves dizzy, nauseous, or light-headed, and/or deeply fatigued.

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Physicians who have not studied women and heart disease may dismiss these symptoms as resulting from stress, a minor muscle strain, or a transient infection. Worse, women may fail to seek help because they do not recognize their symptoms as being related to heart disease.

More than one half of women who died from heart disease had no previously recognized cardiac symptoms such as chest pain, shortness of breath, fatigue, etc. Again, it is unclear whether these women actually had no symptoms or whether the symptoms they did have went unrecognized.

Diabetes And Heart Disease
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Survival Rates for Women with Heart Disease

The survival statistics are pretty grim. Compared to men, women are less likely to survive the initial heart attack, less likely to get out of the hospital alive, and more likely to die within a year of their first heart attack. This may reflect women's inability to recognize atypical cardiac symptoms and seek timely help. However, the fact that women's hearts are smaller than men's and can therefore sustain less damage may also play a part.

Because of these grim survival statistics, it is especially important that women learn to prevent heart disease through healthy lifestyle choices and appropriate medications. Women should start talking to their doctors about the risk of heart disease and planning strategies for prevention when they are in their mid-twenties. As has so often truly been said, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

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