Picture this — a man in his 60s clutching his chest, sweating profusely, and his left arm stiffening, as it is usually portrayed in the movies. We do not usually imagine a woman or a mother, probably in her fifties with abdominal pain, gasping but without chest pain.
Many women think heart disease is a man’s problem. Not true. Cardiovascular disease, often thought to be a man’s disease, is the main killer of older people of both sexes almost everywhere in the world. In the Philippines, diseases of the heart had been consistently the number one cause of death for several years now. The top three leading causes of death in 2020 were the same as in 2019: ischaemic heart diseases, neopl…
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