Heart disease in women

A woman's heart finding new ways to diagnose and treat heart disease in women.

Especially since heart disease is an important issue related to men's health, but heart disease is

actually the first killer of women around the world, especially since heart disease kills 8.6 million

women, including wives, mothers, sisters and daughters, around the world every year.

"Women have a tendency to not completely cooperate with coronary disease therapy, but this is not due to any sexism," says the researcher." says Dr. Corelmier, Department of Cardiology at Methodist Hospital. 

She also explains, "When it comes to heart disease, the female is difficult to diagnosis and treat, and doctors who do not treat many women can struggle to discern certain heart disease symptoms."

Dr. Corelmeier also notes that it must be made clear that women often suffer from "classic" symptoms that have no connection whatsoever to heart disease.

For example, women have chest pain twice as much as men, but this pain is rarely due to a blockage in the blood vessels. And the

If a woman has obstruction, these symptoms tend to be atypical, such as an increase in palpitations, as well as fatigue, sleep disturbances, shortness of breath while walking, and unexplained back pain.

Difficulties persist even after patients suspect a problem and come for examination and testing. 

Since the nuclear stress test is not very effective 

(as this test measures blood flow to the heart muscle while at rest and while there is a stress on the heart).

Because this test can deceptively affect breast tissue.

"Furthermore, an ECG taken while walking on a treadmill may be influenced by menstruation or hormone replacement therapy, resulting in findings that suggest a blockage even though there is none." says Dr.

One of Dr. Corelmier's current studies focuses on non-invasive tests that can indicate an obstruction.

"We're looking for women who have a high risk of heart failure who can exercise, and then we'll do a nuclear stress test and a substance stress test and compare the outcomes." she added.

If both of them indicate normal results we will go ahead and do a CT angiogram, and if anyone is positive we will go straight to getting a coronary angiogram because we assume we need to go to fix something. 

We hope that our findings will help identify a non-invasive test that works best in females. "

Another study has to do with the treatment of diastolic heart failure, and it is common in women over the age of 65 as the ventricles become stiff and unable to relax between heartbeats, causing blood to become trapped in the lungs.

"At the moment there is no other treatment except to regulate blood pressure says Dr. Corelmier, "but we are seeking to find suitable medications like those used to treat systolic, or classic, heart failure.

The team has written that one of its candidate promises is spironolactone, which is a diuretic that inhibits a hormone called aldosterone, and this hormone has been shown to induce excessive fibrous tissue formation in the heart.

Dr. Corelmeier stresses that the big difference that patients and their doctors can make today is being aware of symptoms and taking appropriate steps when they appear. 

The doctor says that one of her patients felt pain in her shoulders when she was working in the garden, and then an examination was done for arthritis, and the result was negative. 

Then we did some tests and found that she had nearly 100% blockage in the left anterior descending artery. 

When this blockage was removed, the shoulder pain subsided, and a possible heart attack was prevented.

Recognize warning signs

Dr. Corelmeier encourages women to speak with their doctors if they are experiencing any of the following potential symptoms of heart disease:

Palpitations (rapid heartbeat)

Shortness of breath when walking

• Insomnia

• Tired

• Pain in the middle of the back during exercise, especially if it subsides at rest.