Women Heart Attack Symptoms - Are we different?Women heart attack symptoms can be a blessing! I've got great news for women! The National Institute of Health (NIH) has researched and discovered that women experience new or different symptoms of a heart attack up to a month before actually having a heart attack! In their study of 515 women, 95% of the women said they new their symptoms were new or different a month before experiencing a heart attack! That can be good news for us if we pay attention to our body's. The most commonly reported symptoms before and during a heart attack were:
Although doctors say that chest pain is still the number one indicator of chest pain, 43% of these women studied had no chest pain during their heart attack. Women are usually more in tune with their body's then men are but none the less this study points out that women's heart attack symptoms are not as predictable as men's. This study is hopeful in that we are better able to divert a possible MI however it is also crucial not to miss the earliest possible signs of an MI.
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