Literally a tear in the wall of a coronary artery, SCAD is a relatively rare and usually deadly cardiac condition that mostly hits young healthy women with few if any heart attack risk factors.
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This month: Focus on Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection - SCAD
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"Men don't have to fight to be believed if they show up in a doctor's office and say that they think they're having a heart attack. But we do. We have to. Every single day."
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Three years ago, Laura Haywood-Cory survived a heart attack caused by Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection - a deadly heart condition so rare that Laura explains: "Most of us don't know another survivor." Delete the scoop?
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HEART SISTERS is all about women and heart disease - our #1 killer - written from the unique perspective of Carolyn Thomas, a Mayo Clinic-trained "heart attack survivor-turned-heart health evangelist" (as described by cardiologist Dr. John Mandrola!) Find out why over 900,000 people in 190 countries visit HEART SISTERS! Delete the scoop?
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"The young female doctor looked into my eyes and said: 'You are having a heart attack and everything from here is going to be happening very fast.' I prayed. I cried. I didn't want to die." Here'... Delete the scoop?
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Dr. Jerome Groopman, in his must-read book called "How Doctors Think", writes: "Physicians, like everyone else, display certain psychological characteristics when they act in the face of uncertaint... Delete the scoop?
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The air pressure in your fully inflated car tires is about 2 atmospheres. By comparison, the high pressure used to inflate a balloon inside a coronary artery during angioplasty is between 10-20 atm... Delete the scoop?
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