Panic Attacks Look Like Heart Attacks in Women

Manola Blablablanik, who I featured in Heart-to-Heart #13, asked a very important question today.

…have you posted about this before? I’ve read about women going to the ER thinking they are having a heart attack when it was in fact a panic attack. Just curious.

The Women’s Heart Foundation has just the answer:

• Heart disease in women is often mistaken for panic attack with shortness of breath, anxiety and indigestion.
• Only by having testing including an EKG can a correct diagnosis be made.
• When in doubt about symptoms, seek care without delay to rule out heart disease.

Learn more about diagnosing heart disease in women. Recommended diagnostic tools for women include a treadmill stress test AND an echocardiogram.

Also visit our sister b5media Science and Health blog – Lively Women.

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