Suddenly sacked? Bereft through death, or distance from a beloved mate? Worked off your feet? Poverty knocking at the door? All examples of troubles that may affect the heart of an apparently healthy, if over-stressed, woman or man
Suddenly sacked? Bereft through death, or distance from a beloved mate? Worked off your feet? Poverty knocking at the door? Terrified of making the after- dinner speech? Suffering from a gut ravaged by acute gastritis or a pancreas inflamed by gallstones or alcohol? A victim of unexpected domestic violence or even a savage argument? These are all examples of troubles that may affect the heart of an apparently healthy, if over-stressed, woman or man. Most often, the victim is a woman who is middle-aged or older. The immediate supposition of both doctors and patients, who have suffered one of these attacks, is that they are dealing with a coronary thrombosis or some other vascular cause of an acute coronary incident and arterial obstruction. The patients’ doctors would be surprised that an angiogram, a procedure that explores the coronary arteries, shows that there are no sinister arterial blockages with evidence of...
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