Chest pain? How you describe your symptoms matters
The use of different terminology adds to the mistaken perception that heart disease is a man's disease, says Dr. Catherine Kreatsoulas, a heart and stroke research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health. "By the time they're age 70, men and women have equal rates of heart disease," she says. "And then women surpass men."
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