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Women do not have the same symptoms of heart disease in men such as angina, the pressure and heaviness in the chest and also does not have the kind of heart attack as many portrayed on television. Consequently, when having a heart attack, women are more often misdiagnosed.
"Women do not have coronary artery disease apparent until after experiencing menopause, which is 10 years later than men," said Feingold seeprti reported by FoxNews.
Over the last twenty years, scientists have learned that the development of heart disease in men different from women. Women have hormonal and psychological point of view that is different from men in affecting heart health.
Women are more likely to express psychological symptoms as a medical disorder, which means that women are not aware of frequently changing conditions of feelings into physical symptoms. Women prefer to talk about feelings, pain and pain than men.
But in many cases, women do not take the time to see a doctor when they feel there is something wrong with his health. Often, women do not want to be considered too hysterical, so resist the urge to seek medical attention when having a heart attack.
"Often, the doctor
also may ignore any unusual symptoms of anxiety or stress patient and do not do a thorough medical examination of complaints of patients," said Dr. Aaron Feingold, chief of cardiology at John F. Kennedy Hospital in NJ
Feingold explained that fewer women underwent an angioplasty procedure, the dilation of blood vessels are narrowed or closed altogether, and stenting procedure, which is placing a small tube into a blood vessel, than men because women not as serious complaints of men.
Many women have difficulty epigastric or heartburn as a heart attack. Thus, when having a heart attack, women are more commonly misdiagnosed than men.
Menopause will improve cardiac risk factors such as being overweight, hypertension, diabetes and high cholesterol. Women more often have coronary artery spasm, and disorders of small blood vessels in which the blockage is not visible, but can be removed with nitroglycerin.
"There is another heart disease that strikes mostly post-menopausal women who are also caused by stress, namely Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, also known as stress cardiomyopathy. This condition is brought on by a wave of epinephrine or norepinephrine in the body," says Dr. Marianne Legato, founder of Partnership for gender- specific Medicine at Columbia University.
In 1990, Dr. Legato prompted the American Heart Association (AHA) to review the literature on women and coronary disease. Legato said that women who have a broken heart after a heart attack are three times greater risk of heart attack than men.
More recently, the journal Circulation reported an increased risk of heart attack risk, called infarcts myocardcial sorrow. The risk is increased in the days and weeks after the loss of loved ones, especially in people at risk for heart disease.
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