This will thin the blood, and takes a decision out of the emergency room Doctors hands. He or she can then focus on whether to use the clot buster drugs. The aspirin may save some of your heart muscle. Special factors for women. Heart attack symptoms for women, just like everything about women, are more subtle.
Women are also more likely to die from their heart attack.
According to a Yale University review of nearly 385 thousand heart attack victims, women were more likely to die from their heart attack up till age 75, when men took their rightfull place as leaders. Women under 50 who were hospitalized for heart attacks were twice as likely to die from their heart attack than men. Women's heart attack symptoms include a burning pain or heavy pressure in the chest instead of the vice like pressure which many men get. Women may also have shortness of breath, nausea, sweating, and flu like symptoms. Women need, and should pursue aggressive diagnostics for heart attack symptoms.