Published in Journal of the American Heart Association · View the paper (DOI)
A new study found that while heart attack symptoms can vary between men and women, chest pain, sweating, and shortness of breath were the most common symptoms in both. Women were more likely to experience pain between the shoulder blades, nausea or vomiting, and shortness of breath compared to men.
Coverage from 2 institutions
- Women's heart attack symptoms are not all that different European Society of Cardiology · May 4, 2020 · first to report
- Time to re-define sex-specific symptoms of acute coronary syndrome, say researchers George Institute for Global Health · May 4, 2020