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Heart Disease in Women | Are You Aware of the Risks?

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the United States, with more than 300,000 deaths a year.
Women's symptoms are often not as dramatic as men's symptoms and as a result, they have traditionally, not been as aware of the risks associated with heart disease.

Severe coronary disease may present with symptoms including mid-sternal chest pain, intense pain radiating to the neck and shoulder, nausea, sweating, and shortness of breath. Women's symptoms, however, often do not present that way.

Women may experience feelings of fatigue, shortness of breath or other less prominent symptoms. Women may even appear to have the typical indications of blockages in the arteries when the problem may actually be that the arteries are functioning poorly. Close attention must be paid by medical doctors to women's symptoms, even if they do not appear to be typical. It is important that women discuss the range of possible symptoms with their primary care physicians and be made aware of risk factors and lifestyle changes.

Obtaining a thorough family medical history is an essential part of helping to identify both symptoms and risks of heart disease. A patient's awareness and action are key components too. Reducing blood pressure, not smoking, treating diabetes and high cholesterol, diet, reducing stress and exercise are all critically important to heart health.

Although many consider heart disease, a male problem, just about the same number of men and women die from it.

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