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Women do not have so much chest pain and they present what are called atypical symptoms, such as breathlessness, palpitations and a lot of sweating or pain in the arms with pain in the upper abdomen. Now men have pronounced symptoms of discomfort that make diagnosis easier. But a sudden cardiac arrest doesn’t give you that time. A heart attack is quickly identifiable with ECG changes. However, if the heart attack can change the heart’s electrical impulses and cause irregular heartbeats, then it could become a trigger for a sudden cardiac arrest. A sudden cardiac arrest is not caused by a blockage but by irregularity in heartbeats. A heart attack is caused by blockages or plaque deposits and clotting in arteries which restrict blood flow to the blocked parts of the heart, causing muscle scarring.
How does cardiac arrest manifest in men and women differently?Ī sudden cardiac arrest isn’t the same as a heart attack. Women have missed reporting their discomfort or been overlooked because they are not classical textbook symptoms.”
Does this mean that women’s symptoms, because they are milder, are often missed? Says Dr Ambuj Roy, Professor of Cardiology at AIIMS, Delhi, “So far all the research has been done with men in focus because of their pronounced symptoms. For men, chest pain was the dominant symptom and, therefore, more discernible and felt. Researchers from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los Angeles, US, have found that the most prominent symptom for women 24 hours before a cardiac arrest was shortness of breath. So an awareness of precursor symptoms means treatment can be started that much earlier. Will this finding help us prevent sudden cardiac arrests and mortality? The abrupt loss of heart function, brought on by rhythm disturbances in the heart, needs to be attended to within minutes for reviving the patient. With reports of sudden cardiac arrests among those under 50 on the rise, a new study now says that half of those experiencing such episodes also had a telling symptom 24 hours before and the warning symptoms were different between men and women.
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