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What Are Some Signs of Heart Disease in Women?

What Are Some Signs of Heart Disease in Women? (0:44)

Signs of heart disease in women may be as subtle as flu-like symptoms, fatigue, or not being able to do what you normally do. Watch cardiologist Suzanne Steinbaum, DO, explain why awareness of these symptoms and your risk factors is so important.

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When women have heart disease, one of the things that they might feel, is their heart racing or shortness of breath. But symptoms and signs of heart disease in women could be as subtle as flu like symptoms or not being able to do what you usually do. If you go to the store and carry packages up five flights of stairs and all of a sudden you find out that you can't, it very well could be your heart and it is worth talking to your doctor.

Symptoms of heart disease could be very subtle, like shortness of breath, fatigue, flu like symptoms, jaw pain, back pain, nausea, but if you know you have risk factors for heart disease, and these symptoms develop, please talk to a doctor make sure it's not your heart.