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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: heart attack + symptoms women + women  Related to the article below (Last Update: 5/13/2008)

Women need to recognize signs of a heart attack
Asbury Park Press, NJ - 59 minutes ago
Yet only 42 percent suspected something was wrong with their heart. Only half of the women experiencing heart attack symptoms sought care within the first ...
Study: Heart attacks difficult to detect in women
Sun-Sentinel.com, FL -
The findings echo data from earlier studies, which have found differences in the symptoms women experience during a heart attack, and the tests and ...

Citizen
Report: Younger Women Ignore Heart Attack Symptoms
FOXNews - May 6, 2008
Even though heart disease is the No.1 killer of women in this country ? signs of a heart attack are often overlooked by women aged 55 and younger, ...
'Invisible' blockages hide women's heart attacks: study AFP
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Can sex REALLY give you a heart attack? We expose the truth behind ...
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FACT: The idea that regular breast examinations prevent women from dying of cancer was discredited by a major American study. In a survey of 266000 women by ...

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Younger Women Misinterpret Heart Attack Symptoms
eFluxMedia - May 5, 2008
Most of the women said they thought they were too young to be having a heart attack. Others said they had atypical symptoms that lasted for more than a day ...
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Younger women unaware of heart attack symptoms, study finds
CBC.ca, Canada - May 2, 2008
Lichtman said health providers need to be aware that young women may experience atypical and typical heart attack symptoms and treat them promptly. ...
Young women miss signs of heart attack
Times of India, India - May 3, 2008
WASHINGTON: Many women under 55 years of age in the US often tend to miss or ignore heart attack-warning signs, as the symptoms don't resemble typical ...
No "Hollywood Heart Attack" symptoms for many women
Media Newswire (press release), NY - May 5, 2008
Lichtman noted many of the women were surprised that their actual symptoms differed from the ?Hollywood heart attack? that they would have expected. ...

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Most Women believe in Hollywood Heart Attacks for Symptoms: Study
HealthJockey.com, India - May 6, 2008
Some women said that there was a delay in the appointment from the doctors and thus they couldn?t receive proper guidance for the symptoms of heart attack. ...
Study: Women More Likely to Miss Heart Disease Signs
KLAS-TV, NV - May 7, 2008
A local specialist spoke with Eye on Health and says this may explain why women are more likely than men to miss the signs leading up to a heart attack. ...
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Cardiovascular Disease in Women A Statement for Healthcare Professionals From the American Heart … -
L Mosca, JAE Manson, SE Sutherland, RD Langer, T … - Circulation, 1997 - Am Heart Assoc
... do not increase the risk of heart attack in women who do not have risk factors for
heart disease ... reasons, ranging from relief of current symptoms to prevention ...

… Estrogen Plus Progestin for Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease in Postmenopausal Women -
S Hulley, D Grady, T Bush, C Furberg, D Herrington … - JAMA, 1998 - Am Med Assoc
... the acute event: ischemic symptoms, ECG abnormalities ... resuscitated cardiac arrest,
congestive heart failure, stroke or transient ischemic attack, and peripheral ...

Causes of delay in seeking treatment for heart attack symptoms -
K Dracup, DK Moser, M Eisenberg, H Meischke, AA … - Social Science & Medicine, 1995 - Elsevier
... onset of symp- toms to arrival at the hospital was 6 hr, with a mean of 21 hr for
women and 24 ... Causes of delay in seeking treatment for heart attack symptoms ...

Patient Delay in Seeking Care for Heart Attack Symptoms: Findings from Focus Groups Conducted in … -
JR Finnegan, H Meischke, JG Zapka, L Leviton, A … - Preventive Medicine, 2000 - Elsevier
... of women?s risk of heart attack increasing with ... Role of consulting others: Women:
More likely ... between physicians and themselves about symptoms, risk, actions ...

Cardiovascular disease in women -
ED Eaker, JH Chesebro, FM Sacks, NK Wenger, JP … - Circulation, 1993 - Am Heart Assoc
... disease in women and men before signs and symptoms of the ... 2 Each year more than 236
000 women die of a heart attack, and more than 87 000 women die of a stroke ...

Timing Is Everything Motivating Patients to Call 9-1-1 at Onset of Acute Myocardial Infarction -
D Faxon, C Lenfant - Circulation, 2001 - Am Heart Assoc
... Knowledge of heart attack symptoms in a population survey in ... [Abstract/Free Full
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Sudden Cardiac Death in the United States, 1989 to 1998 -
ZJ Zheng, JB Croft, WH Giles, GA Mensah - Circulation, 2001 - Am Heart Assoc
... initiatives to improve the early recognition of heart attack symptoms and signs.
Educational and media efforts should specifically target women and younger ...

Association Between Depressive Symptoms and Mortality in Older Women -
MA Whooley, WS Browner - Archives of Internal Medicine, 1998 - Am Med Assoc
... in a cohort of older women and followed them ... the association between depressive symptoms
and mortality ... causes such as coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular ...

Awareness, Perception, and Knowledge of Heart Disease Risk and Prevention Among Women in the United … -
L Mosca, WK Jones, KB King, P Ouyang, RF Redberg, … - Archives of Family Medicine, 2000 - Am Med Assoc
... many women are unaware that they have symptoms of early ... et al 9 reported that 44%
of women in the ... or very unlikely that they would suffer a heart attack, and 58 ...

Attitudes of women toward hormone therapy and prevention of heart disease. -
L Pilote, MA Hlatky - American Heart Journal, 1995 - pt.wkhealth.com
... and the possible alleviation of menopausal symptoms (32%). ... to start hormone therapy,
35% of women ranked knowledge ... of their risk of having a heart attack first ...

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Heart Attack Symptoms In Women - Are They Different?
Chest pain is still the most common sign of a heart attack for most women, although studies have shown that women are more likely than men to have symptoms other than chest pain or discomfort when experiencing a heart attack or other form of acute coronary syndrome (ACS), according to an article "Symptom Presentation of Women With Acute Coronary Syndromes - Myth vs. Reality" published online Dec. 10 in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The study was funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health.

Researchers examined 35 years of research that yielded 69 studies and found that, depending on the size of the study (which ranged from large trials to single centers and interviews), between 30 percent and 37 percent of women did not have chest discomfort during a heart attack. In contrast, 17 percent to 27 percent of men did not experience chest discomfort. Overall, the majority of women - and men - in the reviewed studies had chest discomfort with heart attack (two-thirds to three-quarters, depending on study size).

Study authors also found that older people are more likely to have heart attack without chest discomfort. However, because women are on average nearly a decade older than men at the time of their initial heart attack, the researchers call for more studies to determine the degree to which gender independently influences heart attack symptoms.
They conclude that current research does not indicate a need to differentiate heart attack symptoms in women from those in men, and public health messages should continue to emphasize chest pain or discomfort, shortness of breath, and other common signs of heart attack. Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death among U.S. women, and affects one in 10 women over the age of 18.

The authors also report that women are more likely than men to experience other forms of cardiac chest pain syndromes, such as unstable angina, and they appear to report a wider range of symptoms associated with ACS. For example, women are more likely to report pain in the middle or upper back, neck, or jaw; shortness of breath; nausea or vomiting; indigestion; loss of appetite; weakness or fatigue; cough; dizziness; and palpitations.

Absence of chest discomfort is a strong predictor for missed diagnosis and treatment delays. Noting that many studies exclude patients who do not report chest pain, the researchers call for additional research from well-designed studies to further investigate gender differences in heart attack symptoms. This includes expanding symptom definitions and greater standardization in data collection and reporting of women's symptoms.

Resources:

- Act In Time To Heart Attack Signs is an NHLBI education campaign that that urges physicians to educate their patients about heart attack risk, warning signs, and survival. For information on heart attack warning signs for both the public and health care professionals, http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/actintime/haws/haws.htm.

- The Heart Truth, NHLBI's national awareness campaign for women about heart disease, aims to spread the word that heart disease is largely preventable. For midlife women, the most common risk factors for heart disease in order of greatest prevalence include overweight/obesity, high blood cholesterol, diabetes, and high blood pressure. For more on The Heart Truth, http://www.hearttruth.gov.

- For current recommendations for heart health, see Your Guide to a Healthy Heart, see here .

NHLBI is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Federal Government's primary agency for biomedical and behavioral research. NHLBI press releases and fact sheets, including information on the Women's Health Initiative and on overweight and obesity can be found online at http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) - The Nation's Medical Research Agency - includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical and translational medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit http://www.nih.gov.

 
 
 
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