Heart Disease Facts: What Every Woman Should Know Part 1

[Guest guest]

Heart Disease Facts:

What Every Woman Should Know Part 1

 

Summary & Participants

The statistics for heart disease in women are staggering. Yet many don't know

they are at risk, nor do they know the signs and symptoms of trouble. Tune in to

learn what everyone should know about the leading cause of death in American

women.

Participants:

Sharonne N. Hayes, MD

Mayo Clinic Women's Heart Clinic

Maria Perez, Patient

 

 

Webcast Transcript

ANNOUNCER: What's the leading cause of death for women? If you guessed cancer

you'd be wrong. Very wrong.

SHARONNE HAYES, MD: I think that many women can quote the statistic that one

in nine women will get breast cancer. But in fact, one in 27 women will die of

breast cancer while one in 2.4 women will die of some type of cardiovascular

disease.

 

ANNOUNCER: In fact, more women die of cardiovascular disease than the next 10

causes combined. It kills over 500,000 women every year, with symptoms that are

under recognized, misinterpreted and often silent.

 

MARIA PEREZ: I came home one afternoon in March of 1999 after working all day

and-having a stomachache. Told my husband I didn't feel well, went and lay down.

Went back to bed, 15 minutes later knew something was wrong but didn't know

what, I just knew I had this terrible pain in my abdomen. Went to the emergency

room; my husband's cardiologist happened to be walking through the emergency

room when I walked in. He asked my husband what was wrong. My husband said,

" It's not me, it's Maria. "

 

SHARONNE HAYES, MD: Women are not thinking about heart disease, and that is

one of the major problems. But when we look at surveys only 8% of women

indicated that they perceived heart disease as their number one health risk.

 

 

MARIA PEREZ: I was 54 years of age. I run a business; I do a great deal of

traveling. I had never known that this could be an issue.

 

ANNOUNCER: Most often heart disease is caused by blocked blood vessels, which

can prevent the heart from pumping properly.

 

SHARONNE HAYES, MD: When we talk about the most common type of heart disease,

its coronary artery disease or coronary heart disease. And that's where there

are blockages in the heart arteries that form and if they progress enough or if

this little plaque or blockage ruptures, it can cause a heart attack or sudden

death.

 

ANNOUNCER: Women should know that there is a wide range of symptoms.

Recognizing them is critical.

 

SHARONNE HAYES, MD: The number one thing that women, and men, for that matter,

need to know that most individuals do not have the " Hollywood " heart attack,

where they clutch their chest and fall over and die.

 

The number one symptom that men and women experience is chest discomfort. But

it doesn't have to be severe pain. It can be pressure that radiates up to the

neck, maybe radiating into the back or shoulders or down the arm.

 

Shortness of breath, nausea, fatigue, light-headedness, palpitations, or where

the heart seems to be racing, nausea can be a particularly prominent symptom in

women, and shortness of breath seems to be more prominent.

 

ANNOUNCER: The sooner people having a heart attack get treatment, the better

 

 

 

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