Unexplained fatigue: The overlooked heart attack warning sign in women

For generations, the heart attack has worn a single face — sudden, dramatic, unmistakable — yet for millions of women, the body speaks in a quieter language weeks before crisis arrives. Research now confirms that up to seventy percent of women experience profound, unexplained fatigue in the days or weeks preceding a cardiac event, a warning the medical world has long been ill-equipped to hear. The gap between what women feel and what medicine recognizes is not merely a clinical oversight; it is a consequence of decades of research built almost entirely around the male body. What is at stake is