Women Suffer Heart Attacks Too. Understanding Risks, Symptoms and How to Save Yourself

Women suffer heart attacks too. Understanding risks and the symptoms

Lori Sepich smoked for years and sometimes skipped taking her blood pressure medicine. But she never thought she’d have a heart attack.

Women suffer heart attacks, too

More than 60 million women in the U.S. live with cardiovascular disease. And despite the myth that heart attacks mostly strike men, women are vulnerable too. About 37,000 women die from heart attacks each year. Doctors say there are ways…

Women Suffer Heart Attacks Too. Understanding Risks, Symptoms and How to Save Yourself

(AP) – Lori Sepich smoked for years and sometimes skipped taking her blood pressure medicine. But she never thought she’d have a heart attack. The possibility “just wasn’t registering with me,” said the 64-year-old from Memphis, Tennessee, who suffered two of them 13 years apart. She’s far from alone. More than 60 million women in […]