Women and Heart Disease

Women and Heart Disease

February 21, 2012

6:30-8 pm

Class Code:  3W35

When women suffer a heart attack they often experience breathlessness, flu like symptoms, pain in the upper back and anxiety, all symptoms that could be confused with many other conditions.  Minnie Sivadasan, a cardiothoracic surgeon, will talk about heart disease and how the symptoms can be very different for men and women.