Heart disease is the important cause of death in the United States for both men and women, according to the American Heart union. "But the normal heart is different in men and women," say Marianne J. Legato, M.D., a cardiologist and creator and director of Columbia University's Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine. "Women's hearts beat faster, even all through sleep," she says. And women have dissimilar proteins in the heart cell.
"Some data suggest that the whole physiology of the coronary artery and what keeps them open and what cause them to go into spasm might be considerably different in men and women," says Legato, addition that some women have had heart attacks not including any of the fatty buildup of plaque seen in the coronary arteries in most public with heart attacks.
And the symptom of a heart attack may be dissimilar. "Twenty percent of women will not have the ‘typical symptoms' of chest pain burning down the left arm," says Legato, "but will instead explain nausea, profound sweating, and smallness of breath and pain in the higher abdomen."
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