Women can have heart attack symptoms that are more subtle or 'silent' compared to those — like crushing chest pain — that tend to be more common in men.
"The day before my heart attack I drove 6 hours to help my mother who lives in another state. I thought I should go to a [doctor] but I had to help my mom who is 90 & I’d just tough it out because it wasn’t real bad," sheAccording to her tweets she was taken to a hospital that performs, a procedure in which a long, thin, tube is threaded into a blood vessel leading to the heart. Doctors then inject dye to visualize the blood vessels and identify any problems or blockages.
"Men often get the crushing chest pain, but for women it can be much more subtle," Steinbaum points out. While women may certainly experience chest pain as well, many do not — and instead have symptoms like shortness of breath; pain in the jaw, shoulders, arms, or upper back; nausea; vomiting; or exhaustion. It may even feel like a bad flu, Steinbaum notes. These can come on suddenly or develop slowly or come and go for days or weeks, like they did for the author of the Twitter thread.
"You just don’t think it's your heart," Steinbaum said."Traditionally, many women don't think they’re at risk or that it’s a 'man’s disease' and it's not their problem." This trend can be seen outside the US as well., women wait longer than men to get help when they experience heart attack symptoms largely due to the misconception that it's a problem affecting men.
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