Every day, 200 women in France die from cardiovascular diseases. Six times more than breast cancer. Ten times more than a traffic accident. It is an alarming trend if we add that myocardial infarction affects more and more women under the age of fifty. However, it is not inevitable. If risk factors were better taken into account, if warning signs and symptoms were known to everyone, many women’s lives could be saved…
46-year-old Christine was not so lucky. A heavy smoker, overwhelmed by changes in her professional and personal life, she felt out of breath, tired, and died of a heart attack on her daughter’s 14th birthday. Perhaps such a tragedy would never have happened if Christine had recognized its warning signs and called for help as quickly as possible.
Mental strain and stress have become the third leading cause of heart attacks in women
Claire Mounier-Weyer, cardiologist at the University Hospital and professor of vascular medicine at the University of Lille
“In nine out of ten cases, cardiac arrest leads to the classic symptoms of chest pain explain…
Source: Le Figaro
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