Lander, MDMedically reviewed by Jeffrey S. Lander, MD Chest pain may indicate a heart attack in women and men but have other possible causes, including heart inflammation, a lung infection or ...
According to a US-based cardiologist, the symptoms of coronary heart disease 'can look very different in women compared to ...
Women are more likely than men to have cardiovascular disease that presents as multiple narrowed arteries that are not fully ...
Some other lung-related conditions known to cause chest discomfort include: Pneumonia: This infection inflames the air sacs ...
Chest pain (i.e. angina pectoris) is the predominant initial and subsequent presentation of CHD in women. Evaluation of chest pain and risk stratification to determine the need for further ...
Talking to Ranvir Singh on Lorraine, Dr Hilary Jones warns that because of the biases around what heart attacks in women look ...
'Chest pain that occurs while running may have a variety of causes,' says David Friedman, M.D., chief of heart failure ...
H istorically, medical research has been male-dominated in terms of subjects as well as researchers, even though women make up half of the world’s population. As a result of this gender bias, insights ...
Women aged less than 50 years hospitalized with MI have gender-specific cardiovascular risk factors and experience typical chest pain.
As the population continues to age, with women outliving men, it is likely that patients without chest pain will make up an increasing proportion of those presenting with an ACS. Of the patients ...
Women are also more likely to have additional or different heart attack symptoms that go beyond chest pain, such as nausea, jaw pain, dizziness and fatigue. It is often difficult to fully ...