Are We Mistaking Heart Disease In Women As Emotional Outbursts? | Health Wealth, Ep 09
Every 1 in 5 deaths due to a heart attack in the world happens in India. Research has also shown that Indians have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease than Europeans and Americans.
And so it seems almost fantastical that in a country where heart attacks are anything but uncommon a woman experiencing palpitations be met with the reply--"you're being too sensitive". But that is indeed the lived reality of many women, old and young, in this country. Perpetuated by a misconception that women aren't as much at risk from heart attacks as men, symptoms are readily dismissed as…
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