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"  Could I have a heart attack and never know it? &amp;quot;Heart disease remains the number-one killer of American women, so it&amp;#039;s critical to know the signs. We&amp;#039;ve all heard about classic &amp;#039;male&amp;#039; cues like chest pain and difficulty breathing, but women often have different symptoms, such as nausea, sweating, and pain in the upper back or jaw. I remember one night a woman came in feeling unusually tired. Really fatigued. I thought it could be anemia, low thyroid hormone, or a million other things, but we needed to rule out heart disease. The only way to know was with an EKG and a blood test. Sure enough, the tests showed she was having a heart attack. We sent her to the catheterization lab to clear the blockage in her coronary artery and she survived, but she might not have if she hadn&amp;#039;t gotten to us so quickly. What&amp;#039;s fantastic about women is they take pride in knowing their bodies; she knew the fatigue wasn&amp;#039;t normal for her and came in. If we catch an attack early, we have life-saving treatments, but how you take care of yourself now can determine whether you end up in the ER at all. You have the power to protect your heart by eating right, exercising, and quitting smoking.&amp;quot; Send your health questions to askthedoctors@redbookmag.com. Travis Stork, M.D., is an emergency medicine physician at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville and cohost of the syndicated talk show The Doctors. (Check your local listings for times.) "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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