Heart disease is the biggest killer of women worldwide but remains underdiagnosed and undertreated, according to a leading cardiologist.
"Before the menopause, women's risk of heart disease is much lower than men's but then they rapidly catch up afterwards and it is thought to be due to the decline in oestrogen which is actually a heart protective hormone," she said. Speaking to women at the Derry Well Woman centre, Dr McNeill outlined the role of the heart protective hormone oestrogen.This includes not smoking, watching their weight, alcohol intake and exercising.Media caption,"Women are protected in a certain way up until the menopause by oestrogen.
"We may not have the same symptoms as men, the classic symptoms that we would have been taught at medical school.
Here we go...again...it's all about the 'poor wimmin'.