It is such a sad state of affairs that, to this day, in 2014, we still dont diagnose women and we dont take them seriously when they come into an emergency room with chest pain, and doctors don’t k now how to distinguish between them [and men]. She recalls a patient in her 60s who died after repeatedly going to a hospital emergency room with chest pain — but was sent home because the doctors there did not recognize the signs that she had cardiovascular disease. This woman was sent home three times and she died of heart disease, Dr. Schwartz says. She had a heart attack and died … It broke my heart. Its a horrible thing because its not the first patient I’ve lost that way. Research shows that up to five times as many women die from heart disease than breast cancer. A recent Ohio State University study published in Global Heart, the journal of the World Heart Federation, found that awareness of womens risks of developing coronary artery disease (CAD) has increased over the past decade, but men are still more aggressively treated at the first signs of the heart condition. The research indicates CAD kills at least as many women as men each year, but doctors are less likely to recommend preventive measures for women, compared to men at risk for the condition — such as lowering cholesterol, taking aspirin, or making lifestyle changes in their dietary and exercise habits. Lead researchers Martha Gulati, M.D., and Kavita Sharma, M.D., argued that doctors need to do a better job of recognizing — and treating — heart disease in women. One in three women get heart disease; one in two get heart disease or stroke, and one in eight get breast cancer, Dr. Gulati tells Newsmax Health. One in four women die from heart disease and one in 30 women die from breast cancer. Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women. Lack of awareness is a [factor]. Cardiovascular diseases kill 8.6 million women worldwide each year. Thats one-third of all deaths in women. According to the American Heart Association, cardiovascular disease — including heart disease, high blood pressure, and stroke — kills nearly a half-million women in the U.S. annually. That figure exceeds the next seven causes of death combined. More women die from CAD than of all cancers (including breast cancer, which kills about 40,000 women annually), respiratory conditions, Alzheimers disease, and accidents. Women are also 15 percent more likely than men to die of a heart attack and twice as likely to have a second heart attack in the six years following the first. Read Latest Breaking News from Newsmax newsmaxhealth/Health-News/silent-heart-attack-symptoms/2014/04/18/id/566359#ixzz2zU212XlL Alert: What Is Your Risk for a Heart Attack? Find Out Now
Posted on: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 02:19:30 +0000
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