by Sallie Crawley | Jan 7, 2026 | Podcast, Symptoms, Monitoring & Knowing When to Get Help, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
Vasodilators are used to ease chest pain, and to treat and prevent angina. They help by relaxing and widening your blood vessels, reducing blood pressure, and lowering the heart’s workload, which can relieve angina symptoms. A category of vasodilators called nitrates...
by Sallie Crawley | Jun 12, 2017 | Healthy Heart Living & Risk Reduction, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Stories & Inspiration, Symptoms, Monitoring & Knowing When to Get Help, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
Women are notoriously bad at noticing that they are having a heart attack We have a tendency to just tough it out. In my case you could have knocked me down with a feather, it just couldn’t happen to me. I thought I was invincible and immortal! My (disguised) surprise...
by Sallie Crawley | May 8, 2017 | Symptoms, Monitoring & Knowing When to Get Help, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
Did you know that women generally fare worse than men after experiencing a heart attack? One reason is that it can be difficult to identify the warning symptoms of a cardiac event when they do hit. According to the British Heart Foundation heart attacks kill more than...
