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