"A Woman's Heart" is a 1992 album featuring six legendary female Irish artists; it sold more than any other album in the history of the Irish music charts. We hope that A Woman's Heart Attack, the American Heart Association's first scientific statement on myocardial infarction in women, gets at least that much attention. The paper, published in the journal Circulation, points out:
-High blood pressure is more strongly associated with heart attacks in women than in men.
-Young women with diabetes are at four to five times the risk for heart disease as young men.
-Compared to white women, black women have a higher incidence of heart attacks and young black women have higher in-hospital death rates. Hispanic and black women also are more likely to have multiple risk factors, such as diabetes and high blood pressure.
-Women are more likely to have atypical symptoms (along with chest pain), like shortness of breath, nausea or vomiting, and back or jaw pain.
-Post-heart-attack, women are consistently NOT given recommended medications, leading to worse outcomes. Cardiac rehabilitation is prescribed less frequently.
-Because women live longer, they have more complications following a heart attack than men.
If you're female and are overweight, have elevated LDL cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure or smoke, see your doc to develop a heart-healthy plan that includes stopping smoking, weight management, nutritional counseling and physical training. If you're a heart-attack patient, insist on medications outlined in treatment guidelines, if appropriate, and get the support you need to join and stick with cardiac rehab.
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