Heart Attack Signs in Women
4 November 2003, 1:26 PM
I think this is important enough to pass along:
Heart Attack Warning Signs Are Studied
Unusual fatigue and sleeplessness might be early warning signs of a
heart attack in women, a study suggests. The study, published Monday in
the American Heart Association journal Circulation, surveyed 515 women who
had heart attacks and found that 95 percent had such symptoms as much as a
month before they were stricken. Chest pains can be early indicator of a
heart attack, but 43 percent of the women in the study said they never
experienced chest discomfort, said researcher Jean C. McSweeney.