The most common initial symptom of a heart attack in women (and men) is substernal (underneath the breastplate) or left-sided chest pain that can travel (radiate) to the neck or jaw. In women ...

Some other lung-related conditions known to cause chest discomfort include: Pneumonia: This infection inflames the air sacs in your lungs and can make your chest hurt when you breathe or cough.

Women are more likely experience subtler signs of a heart attack, often leading them to be overlooked or outright ignored.

'Chest pain that occurs while running may have a variety of causes,' says David Friedman, M.D., chief of heart failure ...

“Left breast pain or just left-sided chest pain can be a wide variety of ... Reynolds, M.D., director of the Sarah Ross Soter Center for Women’s Cardiovascular Research at NYU Grossman School ...

Sharp, stabbing pain on the left side or front part of the chest is one of the most common ... trigger inflammation in the pancreas. Women are more likely to have pancreatitis than men.

As with a heart attack, women are more likely to have atypical symptoms ... and collapsed lungs, can become fatal if left untreated. *Those who experience a rapid onset of breathing difficulties and ...

I also occasionally get tingling feelings. A: With chest pain, the first thing we always consider is whether it could be a heart attack or angina. These are most likely to come on with exertion ...

In additional to chest and left arm pain, symptoms of angina include ... symptoms can vary, especially among women, who may be more likely to experience additional symptoms including back and ...

Twenty percent of women will not have the same ... there's an elephant on my chest or chest pain radiating into the neck and down the left arm, which is thought to be the classic picture, and ...

As the population continues to age, with women outliving men, it is likely that patients without chest pain will make up an increasing proportion of those presenting with an ACS. Of the patients ...