SCAD accounts for 1 in 3 acute heart events in younger women. Many doctors are not aware it exists.
April 16, 2024 -- Toniya Farmer was driving on an Atlanta interstate when severe chest pains started. She called 911, had pain and difficulty breathing and believed she was in imminent danger.
“There are still biases that heart attack patients just look like older, white males,” said Erin Michos, MD, director of Women's Cardiovascular Health and associate director of preventive cardiology at the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Baltimore.
“The frustration that these patients have is real,” said Sharonne Hayes MD, founder of the Women’s Heart Clinic at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. “They’re not getting answers. They worry that they are going to die, about having another SCAD,” she said. “I was blindsided,” said Jennifer Maxwell from Cedar Rapids, IA. She had her first of three SCADs at the age of 40. Now 55, Maxwell said that she had been training for a marathon outdoors in the cold Iowa winter when she awoke one day with tightness and pressure in her chest and shortness of breath, and she headed to a local hospital.
The dearth of evidence and sound medical treatments have bound many of these women together, well beyond clinic and emergency room walls. Connecting with others with similar experiences has made significant differences in their lives. When you ask these women what they wish they had known before their SCAD, their advice comes rapidly:
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