Women's Heart Attack Symptoms Different from Men's

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Research by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) indicates that women often experience new or different physical symptoms as long as a month or more before experiencing heart attacks.

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Source: http://usgovinfo.about.com/cs/healthmedical/a/womensami.htm

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No two people experience the same pain or symptoms during ‘myocardial infarction’ (heart attack), am interested if this went into cultural aspects as well.  Research chows that Asian men and women have a higher incidence of pain prior to the actual Infarction and less after, while African’s have less pain than any other race.

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