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Truth is, the classic heart attack made famous onstage and onscreen, where you clutch your chest and fall to the ground, doesn't tell the whole story. "Half the time women don't do that," says Cedars-Sinai's Bairey Merz. "But 40% of the time, men don't have a typical heart attack either." Men, however, have been conditioned for decades to suspect that they might be suffering a heart attack even when they feel perfectly healthy. So while women are more likely to experience the prelude to an attack as shortness of breath, extreme fatigue or a feeling...
...very active--biking, swimming, running, walking. "I would sometimes have to stop because I had shortness of breath." After a couple of trips to the doctor, who failed to pick up on her heart problems, she collapsed in the street while on a vacation in Colorado. "I clutched my chest, had profuse sweating, chest pains from the front to the back, down my arm, up into my jaw." When the symptoms went away, she attributed them to the altitude. Finally, after collapsing one more time, she underwent a more comprehensive and rigorous stress test, which revealed a blockage that required...
...fair, denial isn't the only thing working against women. "More than men, women have stress-related chest pain and pain when they are resting," says Dr. Randolph Martin of the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. Sometimes the pain results from sore chest muscles or monthly variations in a woman's sensitivity...
...What is SARS? According to WHO, SARS is a virus that affects the respiratory tract (lungs), causing a dry cough, shortness of breath, stiffness, fever, loss of appetite and malaise. The symptoms are very similar to those associated with the flu, except that SARS can appear as pneumonia in chest x-rays...
...Push out your chest,” shouts another...