usgovinfo.about.com — Research by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) indicates that women often experience new or different physical symptoms as long as a month or more before experiencing heart attacks. Among the 515 women studied, 95-percent said they knew their symptoms were new or different a month or more before experiencing their heart attack.
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vet4peaceOct 22, 2007
As a paramedic, I hope more people learn about this stuff.
tantoOct 22, 2007
60s and beyond. Menopausal symptoms should be long past. Your main concerns now are the Big Three: heart disease, stroke, and cancer.<a class="user" href="http://orangtuamurid.info/blog/2007/04/29/your-health-cycle-from-20s-to-60s/">http://orangtuamurid.info/blog/2007/04/29/your-hea ...</a>
superrcatOct 23, 2007
Interesting, but the document cited is 4 years old.
skibjorkOct 23, 2007
Here's the problem: you've got "old tough guy" reporting his symptoms and "old gentle gal" reporting her symptoms. some can handle pain better, some lie, bla bla bla. The physiology in an AMI should have really no difference based on sex, since it's a relative opinion and not really anything dealing with hormone secretion, etc...