This is why I keep talking about women’s heart health.
She didn’t have “typical” chest pain — just dizziness and extreme fatigue.
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⚡️ Risk factors: postmenopausal, history of gestational diabetes —> diabetes, gestational HTN x 2 pregnancies
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I love this work— carrying the privilege of caring for women who remain underrepresented in CV research, underdiagnosed in clinical settings and their symptoms underestimated for too long.
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Every case reminds me how much work we still have to do — and how meaningful it is to change that. 🫀
📚 Gulati et al., JACC 2021 [PMID 34796702] |
📚 Wenger NK, Circulation 2004 [PMID 14769677]
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