Why do women have different heart attack symptoms than men?

Question

Like instead of chest pains, they feel “sick” or it feels like a flu without chest pains

In: Biology

Answer 1

For anyone reading this, I’d like to point out another symptom women often have is nausea. My friend died of a heart attack in her 40s and the only thing she’d been complaining of was thinking she had food poisoning, which was likely really her main symptom. She had a family history of heart problems so was likely more aware of the typical chest pain symptoms. Perhaps it’s because some women can ignore or tolerate pain until it makes them feel nauseous.