Women's Heart Attack Symptoms Often Overlooked, Experts Warn

Women experience higher mortality rates from heart disease due to delayed diagnosis and treatment resulting from symptom misrecognition.

Across the country, women are surviving heart attacks they nearly missed — not from inattention, but because the warning signs they carry rarely resemble the ones medicine taught the world to recognize. Built on decades of research drawn almost exclusively from male subjects, the clinical portrait of cardiac crisis left women's experiences in shadow, and the cost of that omission is now measured in lives. A slow but urgent reckoning is underway, as medical institutions and advocacy groups work to rewrite the script — teaching both patients and physicians that a heart attack can arrive quietly,

Women's Heart Attack Symptoms Often Overlooked, Experts Warn

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