Coronary heart disease is the single greatest cause of death for both men and women in the United States. Every year more than 450,000 Americans die of CHD-induced heart attacks. Each year there are more than 1.1 million heart attacks in the United States. Of these 250,000 are sudden, causing the patient to die within an hour. One in ten American women and one in six American men 45 to 64 years of age has some form of heart disease, and this increases to one in five women and one and three men over 65.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States.
Heart attack symptoms in a man are now fairly well known. A man is likely to experience sudden, intense chest pain that can last for hours. He may also feel pain in the left arm or jaw and have difficulty breathing. These symptoms are obvious to an emergency room staff and immediate action is taken to bring a halt to the advance of heart damage. While a women may have some of the same symptoms, in many cases her symptoms won't fit the traditional heart attack profile.