Heart Attack, The Risk: The Horror Story

Heart Attack, The Risk: The Horror Story

Panic with feelings of impending doom. Pounding heartbeats. Sweating for no apparent reason. Dizziness with weakness.

This conjures images of a heroine running in the dark from an unknown villain – think “Cat Woman” – the original Val Lewton one.

Heart Attack, The Risk: The Horror Story

Heart Attack, The Risk: The Horror Story is now playing, not at your local multiplex, but in the bodies of women all over the U.S.

Heart Attack Risk in Real Life

You may well think that your heart attack risk is negligible and as unlikely as a fable, but you’d be wrong – it’s fabled in quite another sense. Among all US women who die each year, one in four dies of a heart attack.

Heart Attack Risk: The Symptoms

Each sentence of the first paragraph represents a genuine, real-life heart attack symptom. We’re accustomed to seeing heart attacks in movies represented by the sudden pain in the left arm and chest pains.

But about a third of women who have heart attacks do not report any chest pain. When it comes to your heart attack risk, don’t rely on movies for your info – for women, the story is very different.