About two years ago, Kristina Auwarter was leaning over to pick up her son from his crib when she felt a spot of pain bloom in her chest. Initially, nothing about it raised her suspicion; she’d just ...
Having a seemingly random heart attack when you have no history of heart disease or clogged arteries is absolutely terrifying. And when the reason for that heart attack goes misdiagnosed by doctors, ...
A new Mayo Clinic study finds that many heart attacks in people under 65—especially women—are caused by factors other than clogged arteries, challenging long-standing assumptions about how heart ...
A new study suggests that more than half of all heart attacks in women under 65 are actually not the result of a clogged artery – which is the most common cause of heart attacks in men. The majority ...
A myocardial infarction (MI), or heart attack, doesn't just damage the cardiovascular system—it can dramatically reshape how ...
Share on Pinterest More than half of heart attacks in younger females could stem from causes other than artery blockage. Tashdique Mehtaj Ahmed/Getty Images Doctors often assume heart attacks in ...
They aren’t all sudden or intense, experts says. By Jancee Dunn I had a relative who experienced chest pain one afternoon. He brushed it off, and said that he’d sleep on it and that if he still felt ...
For decades, surviving a heart attack has come with a lifelong prescription: Stay on medications called beta-blockers to help protect your heart. But doctors are taking a closer look at whether ...