Buzz: Heart attack deaths increasing for women

(WTNH) - Heart attacks are a leading cause of death among women, but sometimes the symptoms can be unrecognizable as signs of a heart attack.

The National Institutes of Health is challenging the common perception that heart attacks are a problem mainly for older men. Death rates from heart attacks are increasing in women 35-to-50 even as they decline in other groups.

Women, especially younger ones and even doctors sometimes do not recognize the symptoms. A woman's symptoms can be:

jaw pain
shortness of breath
weakness and fatigue
heavy sweating
nausea.

Those signs are easily mistaken by them and/or their doctors as indigestion, flu, or even stress.

A public service campaign has been launched to make women more aware.