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Many women experience early heart attack signs that go untreated.(Brief Article)
2002 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A researcher reports that some women experienced undiagnosed warning signs up to two years before having a heart attack, with blacks reporting their symptoms in greater number, intensity and frequency than whites.
The majority of these women recalled having early symptoms an average of 6 months before their heart attack. Black and white women had the same top five most frequent symptoms, but they differed significantly when it came to many others.
"These women say, 'I would do anything to help another woman get diagnosed earlier and maybe save another life,'" said Jean C. McSweeney, a professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock who conducted the studies.
"Black women have more risk factors and more coexisting illnesses, which may account for some of this difference. But we will have to do further investigation to see if there are other factors," she said.
The findings from McSweeney's studies were presented to a conference by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, other federal health agencies and the American Heart Association. They resulted from interviews with 647 women between September 1999 and December 2001 at three medical ...
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