Heart Attack Signs Unique To Women
As baby boomers age the issue of heart disease and heart attacks increases. Did you know that the classic symptoms of a heart attack are really only “classic” in men? Women do not often have the same symptoms, or they have them in areas and places that are unique to women.
Because of these differences, women are often misdiagnosed by doctors (and sometimes sent home from the emergency department only to die at home) or they disregard their symptoms until it is too late.
Please learn these symptoms so that you or someone you know does not become a statistic.
1) Uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, fullness or pain in the center of your chest. It lasts more than a few minutes, or goes away and comes back. Center of your chest, not necessarily the left side. Some women have BACK PAIN and feel nothing in their chest when having a heart attack (this has never been reported in men).
2) Pain or discomfort in one or both arms, the back, neck, jaw or stomach.
3) Shortness of breath with or without chest discomfort. Men usually always have the shortness of breath with the chest pain; women most often do not have the chest pain with the shortness of breath.
4) Breaking out in a cold sweat, nausea or lightheadedness without a probable other cause.
5) As with men, women’s most common heart attack symptom is chest pain or discomfort. But women are somewhat more likely than men to experience some of the other common symptoms, particularly shortness of breath, nausea/vomiting and back or jaw pain.
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