She exercised regularly, grew her own vegetables and ate very little meat, didn’t smoke, and had no other risk factors for heart disease. ( Yvette d'Entremont / Star Halifax )“When I was diagnosed with having a heart attack I was devastated, because I had done everything right for years. The Wear Red initiative was spearheaded by Dr. Sharon Mulvagh, a cardiologist at the QEII Health Sciences Centre and co-director of the Maritime Heart Center’s Women’s Heart Health Clinic. “It’s a bit trickier sometimes to diagnose heart disease in women, that’s probably why it’s a little more confusing and why women have more mortality from heart disease, because people don’t quite get it yet,” Mulvagh said. Heart attack symptoms in women often include chest pain, or discomfort and pain in the back, neck, jaw, arm, or stomach.

Source: thestar February 11, 2019 23:15 UTC