Are you or somebody you know suffering from excessive fatigue? It could be an early warning of heart problems Dr. Jean McSweeney of the Unversity of Arkansas for Medical Sciences warned us in an article in the international edition of The Miami Herald a way back in 2004.
It is a good warning to keep in mind as heart attacks are still the number one killer of women in North America and many women, such a close friend of mine, still do not seem to aware of the symptom and carry on with life as usual likely waiting for chest pains and other symptoms to alert them to possible heart problems.
The critical thing is that according to the study mentioned in this newspaper article only 30 percent of the women in the study reported chest pains as a early warning of heart problems while 71 percent endured excessive fatigue for more than a month before the heart attack.
So if women acted on this symptom, according to McSweeney, they could save their lives.
That, of course, applies to men as well -- no matter how old they are -- because more young persons are falling from heart attacks quite suddenly.
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