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Women tend to get different symptoms during a heart attack than men. Instead of the crushing chest pain and tingling left arm that men feel during a heart attack, women usually feel chest pain that goes up to their neck and jaw (not the left arm). Sometimes, the woman doesn't feel so much chest pain, but feels more out of breath and has difficulty breathing. The tests doctors use to evaluate heart disease will also be different. According to new research, it has been found that women get clogged arteries in the smaller blood vessels (usually these blood vessels are the ones which supply the heart muscles with blood and oxygen), while men have blocked arteries in the bigger blood vessels. The angiograms doctors use to see the clogged arteries can only pick up the bigger blood vessels, and can't see the smaller blood vessels. So the doctor can not use angiograms to evaluate heart disease in women, because he wouldn't be able to see the smaller clogged blood vessels with an angiogram. The medical field still has to find new tests to evaluate heart disease in women. The reason women have smaller clogged blood vessels than men is because their blood vessels get coated evenly with the cholesterol plaque, while men's cholesterol plaques tend to clump up. A clumped up cholesterol plaque will get stuck in the larger blood vessels first, and that's why men will have their bigger blood vessels blocked by their cholesterol plaque. If the cholesterol plaque coats evenly inside the blood vessel, the smaller blood vessels will get clogged before the larger ones. This is why women have blockages in their smaller blood vessels.
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Before all the new research came out, traditionally, women were thought to be at risk for heart disease when they were over the age of 65, while men were at risk when they were over the age of 55. Also, the high density lipid (HDL) levels for women should be higher than men
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