Medical News Summary: Heart disease can occur in people with few cardiovascular risks
About: Heart disease can occur in people with few cardiovascular risks
Date: 20 January 2005
Source: The Sun Herald
Author: Jean Prescott
Medical News Summary (summary of medical news story as reported by The Sun Herald): A woman suffered an unusual pain while going for a swim one day. She was not concerned and did not seek doctor’s advice for a while. The doctor did an EKG but it came back negative. It was not until further testing at a later date was the heart condition diagnosed. She had a blockage of a major coronary artery. She was very surprised because she was thin, reasonably active, didn’t smoke but she did have a history of high cholesterol. Following treatment, she changed her diet and took medication to control her cholesterol. She warns that people with only one or two risk factors for heart disease can still develop the condition and women need to be aware that symptoms can vary. Her symptoms did not match the typical pain in the left side, pain in the arms or jaw and heavy chest pain feeling.
URL: http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/living/10686291.htm
Related Disease Topics: Cardiovascular disease, Heart disease, High cholesterol, Smoking, Overweight, Obesity, Heart attack
Related Symptom Topics: Pain, pain in left side, pain in arms, pain in jaw, heavy feeling on chest
Related Medical News Channels: This medical news summary article refers to the following medical channel categories:
- Medication
- medication and high cholesterol
- risk and cardiovascular disease
- risk and heart disease
- risk and high cholesterol
- risk and smoking
- risk and overweight
- risk and obesity
- risk and heart attack
- risk and pain
- Risk and pain in left side
- Risk and pain in arms
- Risk and pain in jaw
- Risk and heavy feeling on chest
- cause of cardiovascular disease
- cause of heart disease
- cause of high cholesterol
- cause of heart attack
- cause of pain
- Cause of pain in left side
- Cause of pain in arms
- Cause of pain in jaw
- Cause of heavy feeling on chest
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