Low Blood Pressure

Low Blood Pressure

CPR Statistics

CPR Statistics

Heart Attack Symptoms for Women

Heart Attack Symptoms in Women

With more women dying of heart disease each year than men, and with more women dying of heart disease each year than all cancers combined, it is important to know just how different a woman's heart attack symptoms might be.

Significant symptoms prior to heart attack include:

• Unusual fatigue
• Sleep disturbance
• Shortness of breath
• Indigestion

· Anxiety, feelings of impending doom or unusual nervousness

Significant symptoms during heart attack include:

• Shortness of breath and/or inability to catch your breath when waking up
• Weakness
• Unusual fatigue
• Cold sweat, clammy sweat
• Dizziness
• Nausea, vomiting
• Chest pain, could also include back pain and/or deep aching and throbbing in one or both arms
• Fluttering or rapid heartbeats, palpitations
• Feeling of heaviness, such as pressure-like chest pain between the breasts that may radiate to the left arm or shoulder

Recognizing Stroke/Stroke and Women

Recognizing Stroke
If you or someone you love is experiencing symptoms of a stroke, time is critical. Call 911.
Use the F-A-S-T acronym to recognize a stroke:
Face: Try to smile. Is one side of the face drooping?
Arms: Try to raise both arms. Does one drift downward?
Speech: Try to say or repeat a simple sentence. Are your words slurred? Can you speak correctly?
Time is critical: Call 911.

Stroke and Women

While less than half of stroke victims are women, more women than men die from stroke.
Stroke kills twice as many women as breast cancer every year.
Studies have shown that women take 46 percent longer than men to get to the emergency room after stroke symptoms occur.
Women do not always experience classic symptoms.