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...physical inactivity. Some factors, however, seem to affect women more severely than men. In fact, smoking and diabetes completely counteract whatever protective benefits a woman normally enjoys before menopause. Also, women are more likely to be overweight, less likely to exercise and appear to be affected more adversely by stress...
...performed and bypasses are most effective. Perhaps blood flow is restricted in the smaller vessels that branch off the coronary arteries. And perhaps the problem isn't plaques at all but the fact that these smaller blood vessels are somehow more prone to spasm, snapping shut at the slightest stress or trigger, cutting off the flow of blood to parts of the heart...
...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 bypass surgery after earlier treatments ended in failure. Now when Kastan talks to women's groups about heart disease, she tells them they need to know their risks and insist that doctors take them seriously...
...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...
...Reduce Stress...