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LITTLE ROCK (AP) - Women with heart disease experience symptoms different from those exhibited by men with the same condition, and a study at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is examining those differences.
Headed by Jean McSweeney, a professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, the study is a continuation of research McSweeney did on the early warning signs of heart disease. In that, she surveyed women who had had heart attacks and were treated at hospitals in Arkansas, North Carolina and Ohio.
Her current research, funded by a $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, differs from previous studies in that McSweeney is including women who have not yet had a heart attack. She said Monday that the two-year project will follow about 1,700 women in Arkansas and Kentucky who have been referred to a cardiologist.
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