Doctors warn heart risks rising in younger women
Cardiovascular disease leading killer of women in the US
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Yesenia Berbiar woke up a little over a year ago feeling off. She had no idea she was suffering a life-threatening emergency.
“I just felt dizzy, I felt drunk, I didn’t really think anything of it,” Berbiar said. “And it wasn’t until I called my husband that he noticed a slur in my in my voice.”
By the time she got to the hospital, she couldn’t smile or speak. She was having a stroke, which doctors discovered was caused by an undiagnosed heart condition that she was born with.