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Putting It All Together; New medical research shows how different from men women really are. Take heart disease: women's symptoms are more subtle and often get overlooked. What to watch for, what to do.
Byline: Claudia Kalb and Karen Springen, With Joan Raymond and Emily Flynn
Like most women, Helen Bryce, 44, wife, mother and manager at a London-based computer company, was well acquainted with the emotional chambers in her heart. Joy, sadness, love. But Bryce never thought much about her heart as a muscular pump: the size of a fist, weighing less than a can of soda, beating 100,000 times a day. And she certainly didn't think it was vulnerable to disease. Neither did her doctor. When she went to him complaining of stomach cramps last May, he told her it was indigestion. When the cramps didn't go away, the diagnosis changed to gallstones. But while Bryce was ...
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