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Detecting Women's Heart Disease

Reviewed By: Louise Chang,

SOURCES: This Video is from the WebMD Video Archive. 2006 Medical Reference from Medstar Television. www.medstar.comAmerican Heart Association, http://www.americanheart.org The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease, http://www.womenheart.orgThe National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Heart Truth Campaign, http://www.hearttruth.gov

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Dyanne Bostain enjoys a daily walk with her dog Murphy. But not long ago, she was so tired, she could barely get off the couch.

Dyanne Bostain, Patient:

I would try to work, you know, a full day or whatever and I would be really tired by early afternoon. So I'd come home just exhausted.

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She also felt an achy feeling in her back and neck and started getting short of breath. Her husband had had a heart attack a few years ago, but her symptoms seemed different.

Dyanne Bostain, Patient:

It really didn't occur to me that I was having the same thing happening.

Narrator:

Heart disease is the leading cause of women's deaths. But research shows women are diagnosed less promptly than men, are less often referred for further tests and don't always experience the classic symptoms of heart attack. Typically a man's artery blocks off and he has a sudden heart attack.

Deepak Talreja, M.D., Interventional Cardiologist, Sentara Health Care:

More often, women don't necessarily have complete blockages, but they might have superficial plaques and erosions of these plaques that develop in the blood vessel wall and can similarly cause heart attacks but are much more difficult to detect.

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Plus women tend to have a longer part of the artery affected, making their heart disease easier to miss.

Deepak Talreja, M.D., Interventional Cardiologist, Sentara Health Care:

Because with standard heart catheterizations, we compare one part of the artery to the other. If you have a very focal narrowing you can say well this part compared to this part is clearly abnormal but if the whole blood vessel's affected and there's no truly normal part, you look and say it all looks the same to me, there's probably no problem here.

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Tests showed Dyanne had a 95-percent blockage in one of her arteries. It was caught just in time, heading off a major heart attack.

Dyanne Bostain, Patient:

You really need to know your body. You really need to be in tune with your body when something is out of whack. You're the one that knows that it's out of whack.

Narrator:

Dyanne is still getting used to taking eight medications to control her heart disease. She's amazed how few women know their heart risk.

Dyanne Bostain:

I realize in talking with other women that they really are ignorant, as I was, about what a heart attack might be, or what heart disease might be.

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But it takes a healthy heart to lead a long active life. For WebMD, I'm Damon Meharg.

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