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By touqeeralam99 on Oct 19, 2009 |Health and Fitness

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Chest pain is one of the common complaints heard in medical OPDs as well as at the GP?s clinic. Chest pain causes a lot of anxiety in the patient as it is many a time related to ?heart attack? or angina and people are quite aware of the serious consequences of the symptom. Anyone having a chest pain would first think of the heart and would like to know if he/she is having a ?heart attack?. However not all times is a chest pain necessarily originating from or caused by diseases of the heart. There are plenty of other structures in the thoracic cavity and a systematic approach is needed to arrive at the correct diagnosis or in other words to find out the ?real culprit? causing the chest pain. Of special importance is the issue of chest pain in women, as this group is less liable to get heart disease till menopause. Estrogen is said to confer a protective effect and prevents the development of atherosclerosis . Myocardial infarction or Coronary artery disease (CAD) is very rare in menstruating women. As menopause approaches and estrogen levels go down, the probability of development of CAD catches up with those in men. Even then, there are lots of young to middle aged, menstruating women complaining of chest pain and quite distressed about it. Before I highlight the special features of this particular issue lets first review the differential diagnosis of chest pain.  

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