Originally published in the Scripps Mercy Hospital Newsletter, July 2018 No. 5 One of our own volunteers, Pat Egan a Woman Heart Champion, pictured below (second from the left), participated in the Women’s Heart Health Event along with Dr. Poulina Uddin and Dr....
Heart disease causes one out of every four deaths of women in the United States, yet most women don’t know the symptoms. WomenHeart Champion Melissa Botello had no idea she was having a heart attack – she thought she was having hot flashes. You can listen to...
“My experience at the WomenHeart Science and Leadership Symposium [in October of 2017] was an amazing one. I went there knowing that I would get to meet other heart survivors and learn a bunch of new information. What I didn’t know was the strong friendships I...
“I had three heart attacks in one day,” Yesenia Araujo says. The first, she explains, happened at her home, where her boyfriend called an ambulance to rush her to the hospital because she was vomiting, fatigued and experiencing shortness of breath—though at the time...
Originally published on ADAA.org, Anxiety and Depression Association of America Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women, with 1 in 4 women dying each year. Yet 45 percent of women do not know that heart disease is their number- one killer, responsible...
