Renowned cardiologist Angela Maas tells Isla Whitcroft migraines and early menopause are risky for female hearts

The woman tackling the 'heart attack gender gap'

Professor Angela Maas will never forget the moment she realised that she was failing her female patients. It was the early Nineties, and she was treating a woman who had typical symptoms of heart disease — shortness of breath, fatigue, sporadic chest pains — but for whom no diagnosis could be found...

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