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Heart attacks and women

Don’t get surprised when one say heart attacks and women because heart attack in women is one of the major causes for women’s deaths after breast cancer. The overweight women with high cholesterol levels are sure to get heart attack if it is left laid-back. Since women have to face heart attacks with the onset of menopause things could become worse. Every year hundreds of thousands of women die as the result of a heart attack or other cardiovascular disease. What many people, including many healthcare professionals, don’t realize is that the Heart attack symptoms women are often different than in men. Women are more likely to experience nausea, dizziness, and anxiety as symptoms that indicate a heart attack. Further, women tend to be about 10 years older than men when they have a heart attack. They are more likely to have other conditions, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and congestive heart failure–making it all the more essential that they get proper treatment fast.

Womens heart attack symptoms

Let’s take a look on womens heart attack symptoms. Breathlessness and/or inability to catch your breath when waking up, Clammy sweating, Dizziness–unexplained lightheadedness, possible blackouts, Anxiety–unusual nervousness, feelings of impending doom, Edema–fluid retention and swelling usually of the ankles or lower legs, Fluttering–rapid heartbeats, palpitations, Nausea–gastric upset, Feeling of heaviness, such as pressure-like chest pain between the breasts that may radiate to the left arm or shoulder and Chest pain-may also include back pain and/or deep aching and throbbing in one or both arms.

Women should learn the warning signs of a heart attack. These are Pain or discomfort in the center of the chest, Pain or discomfort in other areas of the upper body, including the arms, back, neck, jaw, or stomach and other symptoms, such as a shortness of breath, breaking out in a cold sweat, nausea, or light-headedness.

The risk factors for womens heart attack symptoms can be exposed to an enhanced risk for heart disease if they: are overweight or obese, Smoke, are diagnosed as diabetic or, as having high cholesterol, suffer from high blood pressure, have a family history of coronary disease, are menopausal, or alternately take birth control pills, are exposed to stress, are physically inactive.

So to avoid warning signs of a heart attack they should eat food which contains fewer amounts of fat and cholesterol. They should go for a walk or should do regular exercise and the most important is should go for a medical checkup regularly.