The doctor said I was a walking time bomb. Caroline Charonko, a family nurse clinician, says women usually don't realize they have heart disease, until it is pretty far advanced. She says the symptoms that women experience with heart disease are so vague and deceiving, they're often diagnosed with something else like depression. Doctors don't want to overlook anything. They're testing for the same predictors they look for in men.
Women have breast tissue that makes it harder to detect.
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