HEART PROBLEMS
HEART PROBLEMS
The symptoms may be easy to miss, especially if they come stealthily.
"The best thing you can do if you have newly arrived chest pain, become short of breath or is without energy is to contact your health center and ask the general practitioner to do ECG," says Thomas Flodin, heart doctor at Karolinska University Hospital in Solna.
The women themselves close their eyes to warning signs of suspected heart attack. Especially the women who are between 30 and 55 years old. They do not want to be bothered and start a large device if it was not as serious as a heart attack. Scientists at Yale school of public health have seen a study that Indian express writes about.
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Therefore, fewer women seek care
The women in the survey did not listen to the body's signals and believed they feel better than they actually did. They swept the problems under the carpet and lived on.
Wrong behavior, the researchers think. They want to remove stigmat to seek emergency care for heart problems and emphasize that it especially applies to women with previous heart disease and heart problems in the family.
Thomas Flodin does not recognize the picture that women are worse than men in seeking care for suspected heart attacks.
Myocardial infarction causes other symptoms in women
- I want to be careful about generalizing and saying that it depends only on sex. More factors are involved, such as socio-economic background and where in the country you live. Access to healthcare tends to increase the tendency to seek care, he says.
He emphasizes that there are two major differences between men's and women's heart problems. On the other hand, women fall ill about ten years later than men, and the women get other symptoms. Since most of the research on cardiovascular diseases is based on men, it can lead to women being treated less well.
- Therefore, I think it is good that new research will come, women's cardiovascular diseases are a forgotten area.
Higher mortality among women
Over the past 20 years, the odds of surviving a heart attack have increased significantly. In 1994, 40 percent, according to the National Board of Health and Welfare statistics, in 2014 it was 26 percent.
But mortality is higher for women both now and then. In 2014, 29 percent of the women, however, compared with 25 percent of the men.
Care has become more aware that women's symptoms can often be less distinct, yet a higher proportion is missed. SOS Alarm has instructions to be extra vigilant regarding diffuse breast symptoms in women.
"Men are simpler than women when it comes to the symptoms of a heart attack," says Carita Gerald, former manager of the ambulance care, now regional developer in Västra Götaland, with a past as a nurse at SOS Alarm and in an ambulance.
Signs of Heart Attack - Jaw in the Jaw? Pressure over the chest?
As described above, the symptoms can distinguish between women and men. For women, the pain is often more diffuse and the pain can be felt in both jaw and back - not just in the chest.
breast pain
• It has lasted for over 15 minutes.
• It can be clear and sharp or diffuse and radiant.
• It can be heavy or have a lower intensity.
• It may be affected by inhalation
Ache in the jaw or elsewhere?
• It can hurt the arm, stomach or back
• In some cases, throat or jaw can also be hurt.
• The pain can be severe or have a lower intensity.
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