It is well known that ischemic heart disease is less in women before menopause to be equal to men after 65 of age.
Heart attack in women may be manifested in a different way, classical chest pain occurs in around 50% of women, the other women complaints include shortness of breath, neck pain, indigestion, acidity, and light-headedness.
These symptoms are not specific to ischemia and may be misleading to another disease, though it is so important when you get these complaints as a woman to be aware and proceed to see your cardiologist to do an ECG and blood test for the cardiac enzyme (troponin T or I) and echocardiography to clarify the situation and get the right diagnosis and treatment because the” time is muscles “in cardiology.
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