Coronary Artery Disease (Increased Risk)
African-American Women and Heart Disease
Published in Women's Health Weekly, January 8th, 1996
Linda Patterson, extension health education specialist at Mississippi State University, said the death rate from heart attacks among African-American women is 1.4 times higher than for Caucasian women.
Patterson noted that a factor is that fewer young women (pre-menopausal) have heart disease, and when symptoms occur, they are harder to recognize.
"One problem is that few people think of heart disease first when a woman has warning symptoms," Patterson stated. "Any delay in identifying the problem can be...
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