Carolyn Thomas talks about her heart attack misdiagnosis and how to advocate for yourself more effectively in today's healthcare system, also available as an audio podcast here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sh...

Did you know that preeclampsia during pregnancy and gestational diabetes puts you at a much higher risk for Heart Disease later on in life?

💔In this interview, Carolyn tells her story of how she was initially misdiagnosed by emergency physicians, and only 2 weeks later, told she was indeed having a heart attack.
Carolyn brings us not only her personal experience, but also a wealth of information surrounding the latest research on how heart attack risk factors and presentations in women many times go unrecognized and can even lead to patients being under-treated post-Heart Attack.

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Carolyn Thomas is a Women's heart disease activist and survivor of a misdiagnosed heart attack in 2008. Later that year, she became the first Canadian ever accepted to attend the annual WomenHeart Science & Leadership patient advocacy training at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

Carolyn has an Award-winning blog HEART SISTERS : 19 million views from 190 countries. Her writing as been published internationally, including in the BMJ for which she also serves as a Patient Peer Reviewer for cardiology papers submitted for publication in that journal. She runs Heart-Smart Women presentations, and is the
author of A WOMAN’S GUIDE TO LIVING WITH HEART DISEASE (Johns Hopkins University Press).

Please share this interview with the women in your life who will need to know how to advocate for themselves in the medical system if they even find themselves in a similar situation.

Carolyn's blog Heart Sisters: https://myheartsisters.org
Carolyn's book - A Woman's Guide to Living with Heart Disease: https://www.amazon.ca/Womans-Guide-Li...

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00:00 Carolyn's Heart Attack Story
08:48 How Troponin levels can be lower in women than in men
11:45 Treatment Seeking Delay Behaviour in Women Heart Attack patients
16:20 Life after a Heart Attack
24:50 Chest Pain after Heart Attack or post Stent
25:22 Post- Heart Attack Depression
30:32 Carolyn goes to Mayo Clinic and writes A Woman's Guide to Heart Disease
51:10 What to do if you think you are having a Heart Attack
52:40 Atypical Heart Attack symptoms in Women

References:
Heart Disease Risk Prevention: Womens risk factors: https://www.heartandstroke.ca/heart-d...

Chest pain after coronary interventional procedures. Incidence and pathophysiology: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10372...

A New Blood Test In The U.S. May Aid Heart Attack Diagnosis In Women: https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/p...

The Link Between Preeclampsia and Heart Disease: preeclampsia and heart attack

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