Carolyn Thomas Shares Women's Heart Attack Risk Factors That No One Is Talking About
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2024
- Listen to Carolyn Thomas' heart attack misdiagnosis story and learn about the risk factors for heart disease that many women are unaware of. Learn how to advocate for yourself in the healthcare system as a woman, and what symptoms might be a sign of a heart attack as well as what pregnancy complications may leave a woman at 3-4 times greater risk for heart disease in this insightful interview.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Misdiagnosis: Carolyn Thomas's Heart Attack Story
03:51 Prevalence of Women's Heart Disease
05:37 Risk Factors for Womens Heart Disease
06:26 Pregnancy Complications and Heart Disease
12:39 Unusual Heart Attack Symptoms
14:18 Heart Attack diagnosis and communication
15:25 Womens Cardiac Research Gaps and funding challenges
20:45 Silent Heart Attack
23:01 Treatment Seeking Delay Behaviour in Women
34:48 Mental Health post Heart Attack
46:03 Support for Heart Attack Patients
50:23 Heart "Failure" BMJ Editorial by Carolyn Thomas
56:00 Patient Advocacy and Heart Health
01:00:00 Heart Sisters Blog and Book Recommendations
01:01:19 Carolyn's message for all women about heart disease
References:
Canadian mental health association: cmha.ca
Heart failure: it’s time to finally change the F-word: openheart.bmj.com/content/ope...
Words That Harm, Words That Heal: jamanetwork.com/journals/jama...
Ten-year, thirty-year, and lifetime cardiovascular disease risk estimates following a pregnancy complicated by preeclampsia: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22971...
The Maternal Health Clinic: A New Window of Opportunity for Early Heart Disease Risk Screening and Intervention for Women with Pregnancy Complications: www.jogc.com/article/S1701-21...
Pregnancy-associated cardiovascular risks and postpartum care; an opportunity for interventions aiming at health preservation and disease prevention: www.sciencedirect.com/science...
NIH-funded studies show stents and surgery no better than medication, lifestyle changes at reducing cardiac events: www.nih.gov/news-events/news-...
Silent heart attack: What are the risks?: www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-c...
Understanding Treatment-Seeking Delay in Women with Acute Myocardial Infarction: Descriptions of Decision-Making Patterns : aacnjournals.org/ajcconline/a...
Depression and Heart Disease: www.hopkinsmedicine.org/healt...
Lindsay Dixon is a registered Pharmacist residing in Canada. She obtained her Bachelors of Science degree in Brazil where she specialized in the area of Pharmacotherapy. With over 13 years of experience working in community pharmacy and in community pharmacy management, her passion lies in the areas of preventative medicine, patient-centred care, and public health education. In addition to being a licensed Pharmacist in the province of British Columbia, Lindsay is also certified Palliative Care through the University of Victoria and became certified in Migraine Care through Migraine Canada in 2023.
Lindsay was the recipient of the Ben Gant Practice Innovation award from the BC Pharmacy Association in 2021 and was most recently selected by Pharmacy Practice & Business Magazine as the recipient of the Raise Your Voice Award in 2022.
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Around 14:00
"Any symptom between neck and navel that comes on with exertion and goes away with rest should be considered cardiac until proven otherwise."
Very important information.
Thank you for this, it has been very helpful to hear this . I have survived a heart attack and 4 strokes. I now have learned how to go forward.
We really do need to get rid of these clutching the heart photos. I told an er doctor that I “had pain but not heart attack pain” because those pictures make it look so extreme. So I went home told I had heartburn. For weeks I felt pain and talked myself out of pressing the doctor for a stress test until it dawned on me one day that I was being an idiot and I asked (with some heat) for the test. I bombed the test and found myself at the cardiologist. I have nitro glycerin on my nightstand beside me and I have a catheterization Monday. I even thought that because my pain was in the center of my chest and not on the left side like the photos that it couldn’t be my heart.
A good reason to ditch those 'clutching the heart' pix in the media! Any pain or discomfort or pressure or heaviness (between neck and navel) that feels unusual FOR YOU especially if it seems to get worse with exertion and better with rest should be considered CARDIAC until proven otherwise. Thank goodness you finally spoke up!
Good luck to you on Monday :-)
@@CarolynThomas-HeartSisters Thanks. And thanks for what you do.
@@CarolynThomas-HeartSisters .... Carolyn ... you are such a light and I so hope that more med. professionals (all levels) find your information & *truths* !! That stat revolving around more women have heart attacks than breast cancer here should be across all media formats continually.
So grateful you rtrnd to a favvvv professional in healthcare (Lindsay) as she is the best host & *brings* the best topics and guests here. Truly you both *need* millions of followers & support for your work & drive.
Continued best. p.s. edit -- you may want to have your social media team to add your website and all such to your YT channel info-about me section just a thought.
@@abeach5420 Thank you for your kind words! I agree with you 100% - Lindsay is the BEST HOST! ❤
You truly are a critically important leader in this ongoing work of needed change that is SO slagging behind....still. @@CarolynThomas-HeartSisters
So much of Carolyn story parellels my experience with a nd Takotsubo event in 2021. Thankfully, I new something was very wrong with my heart, but still called someone else to drive me to the ER. Lesson learned. Bless all the women like Carolyn and my Takitsubo support group for being instrumental to impowering me and my healing. ❤
excellent interview. I'm a 2-time heart attack survivor (stents) and I can so relate to many of the issues that Carolyn has discussed. I had pre-eclampsia during both pregnancies, which resulted in life-long hypertension. I felt more than once that the ER doctors were not taking my symptoms seriously - I've had pericarditis 3x since and twice was told it was "nothing" despite 12/10 pain. I now advocate for others.
I identify strongly with the situational depression. Losing my hearing in right ear and somewhat in my left and the vertigo of Menieres was life changing. Not fatal but life altering in a big way
Interesting and helpful. Many thanks to you both.
Thank you for linking this video for me. Women often have epigastric pain radiating isn’t the chest as the only sxs of an MI. Once I had a 29 yr old thin female patient without known risk factors, (although I suspected cocaine use)whose chief complaints were vomiting, some diarrhea, and burning pain radiating into chest. I had to decide whether this was GI or cardiac. Nitroglycerin can help pain with both conditions, but she also had relief with a “GI cocktail”, and labs were ok. I ended up doing 3 EKG’s p, and the 4th showed the classic ST elevations in the anterior leads. A short time later I was called over by a panicked nurse , to see the patient in ventricular tachycardia ((a deadly rhythm). We defibrillated her successfully, and she did well hereafter after stent placement. I’m sharing this story because nanny docs would have stopped after the first normal EKG, and discharged the patient with the Dax of gastroenteritis. And she would have died.
The interviewee was in error talking about sudden death. Many times, the fatal arrhythmia happens without pain. Doubling over with severe pain is a frequent presentation of an MI, but there isn’t any correlation with pain level and death.
This is very interesting. Thank you for sharing. The timing of the EKG is something I have often wondered about - for example, can a person be symptomatic for a heart condition but sometimes have a normal EKG? Appreciate the comment.
thanks.
You're welcome
Being a distance runner IS a risk factor.
What about left calf pain (unrelated to exercise) or weakness sign of clot in the arteries?
Pregnancy problems and depression are not risk factors in themselves, they are indications of other ignored risk factors.
This is a very important distinction.
Even if you have a HMO or a Advantage Plan go for a Second Opinion. Just tell the MD your symptons. They have new ways to image cardiac problems. ER Doctors are Obvious MD's. Pressed for time.