B.C. youth whose heart stopped drawing attention to prevalence of condition among women
When 19-year-old Naomi Lee woke up one morning in the summer of 2020 with chest pain, she hemmed and hawed about what to do. She, her parents and her siblings were all battling off the flu, so feeling sick was normal, but the pains were new.
“I was thankfully in the hospital and they were able to put me on life support,” Lee said, reflecting on things two-and-a-half years later. By September, Lee was back on life support. She had a battery-operated pump implanted into her heart as a sort of last-ditch effort to save it, but in the summer of 2021 she had to get a full transplant.
The Heart and Stroke Foundation says few Canadians know that heart disease and strokes are, in fact, the leading cause of premature death for women – taking 32,271 lives in 2019. And, despite the fact that the majority of research has focused solely on men, women are actually at a greater risk of dying from the conditions. In 2019, 20 per cent more women died of heart failure and 32 per cent more women died of stroke than men in Canada, according to Heart and Stroke.
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