Heart Disease in Women

When it comes to heart disease the stereotypical candidate is male, middle age, overweight, and lives an unhealthy lifestyle. But now women are being added to this list of high-risk candidates. "Heart attack is the leading cause of death in American women" (Internet 1). Womens symptoms have been ignored and mistreated when it comes to mild symptoms and discomforts associated with heart attacks. Not only was it the patients fault but that of the doctors. Doctors would diagnose men more readily and refer them to the next level of tests and treatments needed, but in women this did not happen.…