Angina 'may be missed in women'
Women with chest pains may be dying of heart disease unnecessarily because doctors under-estimate the severity of their condition, research suggests.
A team from University College London found that angina - often the first sign of heart disease - affected women at the same rate as men.
However, women with suspected angina were less likely to be offered confirmatory diagnostic tests.
The study appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
BBC NEWS | Health | Angina 'may be missed in women'
posted by BarbaraC. Phillips, NP @ 2:09 PM
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Most doctors think that women complain too much as it is. They chalk everything up to hysteria, hence the term "hysterectomy"..I educate every female patient about heart attack symptoms that do not fit the "normal" patterns..
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