Anxiety and Heart Disease Cardiologist FAQ

I have seen woman confusing anxiety with heart attack or angina but I have seen also with is pretty typical woman confusing acid reflux with heart disease and in fact they may be having a very significant coronary lesion after we do the cardiac catheterization so it is very important that the woman if she has high risk factors like diabetes, hypertension, lymphedema and they have symptoms that may or may not be heart disease, better to err on the side of testing that woman because we may miss an important diagnosis because we may be missing a heart attack if we just attribute that the patient has anxiety or acid reflux.