Women have heart attacks too, but their symptoms are often dismissed as something else

By Patricia Davidson
Updated June 28 2018 - 1:25pm, first published August 9 2017 - 12:00am
The importance of heart health in women has for many years been invisible.
The importance of heart health in women has for many years been invisible.

HEART attacks claim the lives of 3.3 million women every year, and many women die from other heart-related conditions. In the United States, nearly 290,000 women died from heart disease in 2013 – that’s about one in every four female deaths.

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