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Personally, I like Carolyn Thomas’s blog the best. I find the website listed as #1, the American Heart Association website, to be very ordinary and not very engaging. Carolyn provides much more individualized and personally relevant information…. Top Ten Online Influencers about heart disease
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An important story to read: the misdiagnosis of (a woman’s) heart attack: Heartburn or a Heart Attack? When Carolyn Thomas went to the hospital for chest pain and nausea, doctors diagnosed acid reflux and sent her home — but she was really having a heart attack. Now this Canadian blogger is using her site to [...]
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Carolyn Thomas’s MyHeartSisters post on women’s stories about their heart attack symptoms was picked by the most widely read doctor blog, www.Kevinmd.com There are over twenty stories told by women about their symptoms; they provide an excellent overview of the variability of heart attack symptoms. (Click here for full article.) Sandra, age 37, USA: “I [...]
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Carolyn Thomas’s excellent and educational blog, www.myheartsisters.org, highlights Dr. Wayne Sotile’s Thriving After Heart Disease. It is very hard to find books about dealing with the emotions of recovering from a heart attack; this book seems to do that to some extent. Dr. Sotile’s book sounds quite worthwhile, but I have problems with the title. [...]
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Australian patients’ delay in response to heart attack symptoms objectives: To examine delay in seeking treatment among patients with an evolving acute myocardial infarction (MI), and to identify factors which contributed to this delay. Design: Patient interview combined with medical record review. Participants and setting: 317 patients with confirmed diagnosis of acute MI interviewed within [...]
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The Blog Entry at www.myheartsisters.org from April 5, 2010: Every hour you spend watching television each day increases your risk of dying from heart disease by almost a fifth, say scientists in Australia. The findings were reported last month in Circulation, the Journal of the American Heart Association. Prof. David Dunstan, the study’s lead researcher [...]
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