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Women & Heart Disease: Heart Attacks Without Chest Pain
Women & Heart Disease: Heart Attacks Without Chest Pain
Two out of five women have heart attacks without experiencing chest pain, according to a study of more than one million people. The study findings may partly explain why middle-aged women are more likely to die from a heart attack than men, despite more heart attacks occurring in men of the same age. Although chest pain or discomfort is the most common heart attack symptom, fatigue, nausea, shortness of breath and pain or numbness in the jaw, arms or back can also signal a blocked artery cutting off vital oxygen and nutrients from the heart.
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