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What Women With A Family History of Heart Disease Are Never Told at Their Cardiology Appointment
If you’re a woman with a family history of heart disease, there is information your cardiology appointment was never designed to give you.
You've been told your numbers look fine. But if you have a family history of heart disease, that answer might not mean what you think it means.
Noting a family history and actually measuring what it points to are two completely different things. Most cardiology appointments do the first. Almost none do the second.
In this episode, I'm going to break down what your family history is actually pointing at, why the standard workup falls short for women, how…
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