cholesterol, General Health, Heart Attack, Heart Disease, High Blood Pressure, Menopause, perimenopause, Stroke
I want to share this interview I did with Puja Mehta, a cardiologist at the Barbara Streisand Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Here she discusses heart attacks in women and what you need to know. Men and women have such different symptoms that many women don’t...
Diabetes, Heart Disease, perimenopause
A recent article in JAMA (2012;307(8):813-822) found that women are 30% less likely than men to have chest pain or discomfort during a heart attack, especially under the age of 45. Because of this, women are more likely to die in the hospital than men because the...