Women and Heart Disease

 

Each year, in the US, more women die of heart disease than of breast cancer and lung cancer combined. More emphasis, for women's health, should be placed on heart disease, primarily early detection for early treatment.

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• 1 in 5 women die of heart disease compared to 1 in 31 who die of breast cancer.

• Women often present with heart related symptoms that are different than men, and can often leave clinical visits undiagnosed and in danger of a major adverse cardiac event.

• ​No current test (other than MCG) accurately detects microvascular disease in small blood vessels – a commonly undetected factor in women’s heart disease as this disease can be present even when there is little to no narrowing showing in the main arteries.

• MCG detects small vessel coronary disease that is essentially invisible with the present testing methods.

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With Small Vessel Disease (Microvascular Disease) there is little to no narrowing in the main arteries so when conventional testing shows no significant artery blockage, they could be missing this life-threatening disease.

 

Here are two familiar scenarios of women experiencing chest pains. So often they visit the doctor, undergo several tests, including Treadmill Stress Test and Angiogram, only to find out their heart appears healthy with no blockages and are told by her doctor "it's not your heart, go home you're fine, ."

 

So, what was the undetected cause of the chest pains? Below are two such stories.

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Women With Repeated Chest Pain

And Clear Test Results​​