--- title: Heart Attack: Why The Disease Looks Different For Women description: Heart attacks among women differ in many ways from heart attacks in men, says a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. canonical: https://time.com/4192350/heart-attack-women/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-25T16:42:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T14:24:23.988Z article:section: Health og:title: Heart Attack: Why The Disease Looks Different For Women og:description: Heart attacks among women differ in many ways from heart attacks in men, says a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. og:url: https://time.com/4192350/heart-attack-women/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc2c0925b8b4dd0e5/69887a870a4a22d5239c80d6/time-health-heart-attacks-gender-fb.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2334 og:image:height: 1313 og:image:alt: Heart Attacks Men and Women og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Heart Attack: Why The Disease Looks Different For Women twitter:description: Heart attacks among women differ in many ways from heart attacks in men, says a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc2c0925b8b4dd0e5/69887a870a4a22d5239c80d6/time-health-heart-attacks-gender-fb.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Women's Heart Attacks Look Nothing Like Men's: Report > Sponsored content. 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Photo Illustration by Lauren Margit Jones for TIME/Photo: Getty Images by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Jan 25, 2016 4:42 PM UTC [Heart disease](http://time.com/4164506/heart-failure-deaths/) is the leading cause of death for women in the United States, but the telltale signs of [heart attacks](http://time.com/3720718/anger-heart-attack/) in women can often go unnoticed—or end up mistaken for other health problems. That’s what has prompted a new American Heart Association (AHA) report, which serves as a reminder that women’s symptoms of a [heart](http://time.com/4018512/heart-age-health/) attack, as well as their outcomes, differ from men in important ways. Heart disease is “an equal-opportunity killer,” the researchers write in the journal _Circulation_. Women are more likely to experience symptoms like nausea, shortness of breath, as well as back and jaw pain, rather than the more commonly accepted symptoms of crushing chest pain. Because of that, the AHA statement authors say, doctors may not correctly identify the disease in women, resulting in improper treatment. Heart disease in black women is especially underdiagnosed and undertreated. The paper highlights how the risk factors for women differ as well. Young women with type-2 diabetes, for instance, face a heart disease risk that’s four to five times greater than men’s. Evidence is mounting that psychological stress can increase the risk of heart disease—something that appears to affect women more than men. Women are also underrepresented in clinical trials for heart disease, the authors note. They generally make up about 20% of the people enrolled, and even when women are included in trials, researchers often do not parse out the gender-specific data that could deepen scientists’ understanding of how the disease affects women. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4192350/heart-attack-women/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4192350/heart-attack-women/"},"headline":"Women's Heart Attacks Look Nothing Like Men's: Report","datePublished":"2016-01-25T16:42:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T14:24:23.988Z","description":"A heart attack can look very different between genders","url":"https://time.com/4192350/heart-attack-women/","keywords":["Heart Disease","women","heart attack"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc2c0925b8b4dd0e5/69887a870a4a22d5239c80d6/time-health-heart-attacks-gender-fb.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc2c0925b8b4dd0e5/69887a870a4a22d5239c80d6/time-health-heart-attacks-gender-fb.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Heart Attacks Men and Women","caption":"Heart Attacks Men and Women","creditText":"Photo Illustration by Lauren Margit Jones for TIME/Photo: Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/heart-disease/","name":"Heart Disease"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4192350/heart-attack-women/","name":"Women's Heart Attacks Look Nothing Like Men's: Report"}}]}] ```