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Article: A CHANGE OF HEART ALTHOUGH HEART ATTACKS AND STROKES KILL MORE WOMEN THAN MEN, MEDICAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE SEXES HAVE BEEN IGNORED, LEADING TO NEW FEDERAL MANDATES TO TEST WAYS TO COMBAT HEART DISEASE, BREAST CANCER AND OSTEOPOROSIS, LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH AMONG WOMEN.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- May 29, 1994
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Byline: SARAH GLAZER Congressional Quarterly
WASHINGTON It never occurred to 69-year-old Ethel Weichbrod of Washington that the crushing chest pain she felt one night in 1989 might signal trouble. But four days later, Weichbrod landed in the hospital with a heart attack.
Plaque had been building up in her arteries for years, but her doctor had never discussed heart disease with her or tested her blood cholesterol.
Another Washington woman, 70-year-old Helen Bryan, didn't think anything was amiss when, at her regular checkup, she mentioned the vague ache in her arm and her shortness of breath. When her doctor told her to go to the ...