Women and heart attacks
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Dawn had a heart attack but 'powered through' making the Christmas dinner before seeking help - because she put her symptoms down to anxiety and backache.
Her interventional cardiologist in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Professor Vijay Kunadian, sees many women like her who aren't seen quickly enough or given the right medication to improve their chances of survival. We hear about research which reveals that women are much more likely to die of a heart attack than men because of delays and lack of treatment.
Learning the piano can help to improve the way our brains process audible and visual information - a task we carry out effortlessly when looking and listening as we do things like cross the road safely or chat with friends. Dr Karin Petroni explains how even just a few microseconds in processing speed can make a difference - so she's going to carry on playing drums.
James Gallagher's piano version of Giuseppe Verdi's La donna è mobile/When the saints go marching in (trad) arranged by Nancy Litten/Kenneth Bartels (ABRSM)
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| 0:33.2 | Hello there and welcome to the Inside Health podcast. |
| 0:35.5 | I'm James Gallagher. |
| 0:36.5 | And we're going to be exploring heart attacks in women today. |
| 0:39.9 | So a simple question for you, would you recognise the signs? |
| 0:43.5 | Very, very lightheaded, a bit disoriented. |
| 0:47.1 | Paining me back, paining me legs as well. |
| 0:50.3 | I noticed a bit of swelling like I was holding water. |
| 0:54.7 | But on the day, there was no clutching of the chest. |
| 0:57.6 | It was backache and down my left side arm. |
| 1:01.3 | Dawn didn't know she was having a heart attack and had dismissed it as anxiety. |
| 1:06.4 | I've got an interesting question for you. |
| 1:07.9 | What do you think would have happened if a man had had |
| 1:10.8 | exactly the same symptoms as Dawn? It's one to ponder, isn't it? Well, the British Heart |
| 1:15.8 | Foundation says women take longer to seek help and when they do, they're more likely to get |
| 1:21.2 | the wrong diagnosis, at least initially. So we're going to unpick this today, what's going on |
| 1:26.1 | and we're going to hear from dawn again in a minute. |
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