Heart health matters year-round! Although February was American Heart Month, it’s important to keep the conversation going. This episode explores how heart disease uniquely affects women and why it remains their #1 killer.

Stay informed, recognize the signs, and take steps to protect your heart health!

❤️ You’re never too young or too healthy to be affected by heart disease. Trust your instincts, and seek help if something feels wrong.

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❤️ Learn about:

• How heart disease impacts women differently

• Recognizing atypical heart attack symptoms

• Understanding microvascular disease & MINOCA

• Pregnancy complications as future heart risk indicators

• The role of menopause in heart health

• High blood pressure: The "silent killer"

• Heart disease causes 1 in 5 female deaths

• Over 1 in 3 women live with heart disease

• 71% of women don’t discuss heart health with their doctors

• Women are 50% more likely to receive a misdiagnosis

✔ Stay active
✔ Maintain a healthy weight
✔ Eat a heart-healthy diet
✔ Quit smoking
✔ Manage stress
✔ Limit alcohol

🚨 Chest pain or discomfort
🚨 Upper back/neck pain
🚨 Unusual indigestion
🚨 Extreme fatigue
🚨 Shortness of breath
🚨 Sudden dizziness

Resources & Credits

American Heart Association:

• The Slowly Evolving Truth About Heart Disease and Women

• Heart Attack Symptoms in Women

• Heart Disease: Symptoms & Prevention

• Women & Heart Disease

• 8 Things Every Woman Should Know About Her Heart

Mayo Clinic:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):Penn Medicine Research: