Boys and girls right from their early childhood stage begin to understand that they are in fact physically and physiologically different from each other.
But, in the last five decades, the medical community has failed to give importance to this aspect and continued with the same heart disease treatment for both men and women. Today, in the entire United States, heart disease is the number one killer both among men and women.
The very first point of consideration in any information on heart disease is that the symptoms are different in women and they need to have a special set or a different set of diagnosing tools and treatment schedules for heart disease.
Difference in Symptoms or in Exhibition of Symptoms
Women never let out pronounced heart disease symptoms like chest pains, radiating pain in left shoulder, gasping for breath, etc. In women even a strained muscle or stress causing stressors may turnout to be symptoms of heart attacks.
They may also exhibit fatigue for no valid reasons, nausea with vomiting, and even giddiness and all these symptoms have to be either attributed to or understood as symptoms of impending heart disease.
The classic symptom of acute chest pain in heart disease is never exhibited by women and that makes is difficult for people around the possible victim to give a timely treatment. Further, majority of the heart disease symptoms exhibited by women are not pronounced and due to its vagueness, doctors are not able to make a correct diagnosis of the heart disease in women.
Only the women are need to understand their physical condition and insist their doctors to rule out the possibility of any heart disease.
Higher Mortality Rate
One of the unpalatable information on heart disease in women is that heart disease related deaths are more in women than that of men. Women are more prone to get the heart disease condition aggravated much faster than men and they die very fast, say within one year after exhibiting their first symptom or initial diagnosis.
Medical community is yet to find out the reason for such quick deaths among women heart patients and one possible reason could be due to the ignorance of identifying the warning signals well in time.
Hence, being a woman, it is better you have sufficient knowledge about your heart condition and never take chances even if some of your symptoms are brushed aside by your doctor as trivial. Insist your doctor to get all the tests done on you in order to rule out the possibility of a heart disease and to stay clear from any other heart conditions.
[tags]Prononced Symptoms, Diagnosis[/tags]