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younger women Hesitate to says no to Heart attack

Posted by : Woman In India on | Feb 25,2015

younger women Hesitate to says no to Heart attack

Each year more than 15,000 women under the age of 55 die of heart disease in the United States. And younger women are twice as likely to die after being hospitalized for a heart attack as men in the same age group. It doesn't help that women tend to delay seeking emergency care for symptoms of a heart attack such as pain and dizziness, says Judith Lichtman, an associate professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health. "We've known that for a while," she says. In a small study published T

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