Heart Attack Signs in Women

Video Transcript

"Well one thing we have to remember is most women don't get noticeable heart disease until a decade after men do. Men start having symptoms at age 35 and so, women's heart disease symptoms don't actually occur until around age 45 or later and then by the time they become symptomatic with them and send having heart attack symptoms inside, then they're probably in their late fifties or sixties where as much men have already had their attacks by that time and or possibly death. The hallmark sign of heart attack in most men and a few women is the chest pain, a pressure sensation of pain in the chest that can radiate to the jaw or to the upper extremities or even to the abdomen. Most women do not experience this. They found at least about forty three percent of women, percent with heart attacks, did not have chest pain as their symptom. Other symptoms that they have are shortness of breath; they develop weakness in the extremities and just in general sort of a, a weakness with movement. Unusual fatigue is another symptom where they would do something normally, normal such as walking to the grocery store, getting in the car and they would be very winded, exhausted by that effort. Other things women can get as signs of heart attack or impending heart attack are nausea, dizziness and also lower chest or upper abdominal discomfort."