Heart disease in women is different — and too often missed.
Women's cardiac symptoms frequently look nothing like the classic chest pain picture taught in textbooks. Palpitations, breathlessness, fatigue, neck or back discomfort and nausea can all be signs of heart disease — yet they are routinely attributed to stress, anxiety or the menopause. Hormonal transitions such as pregnancy and perimenopause add further risk that standard check-ups rarely capture. A cardiologist with a dedicated focus on women's heart health recognises these patterns earlier, investigates them properly, and builds a prevention and treatment plan around the individual woman — not a template drawn from men's disease.
Women's Heart Health
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in women, yet women's symptoms are frequently different, subtler, and more often dismissed. Dr Wamil offers dedicated cardiovascular care for women — addressing hormone-related risk, pregnancy complications, menopause, and conditions such as SCAD, microvascular dysfunction and Takotsubo cardiomyopathy that disproportionately affect women.
Hormonal & Menopause Care
Risk assessment and tailored prevention across the hormonal transitions that shape women's cardiovascular health — from pregnancy and PCOS through to the menopause.
Pregnancy-Related Cardiology
Specialist evaluation of pre-eclampsia, gestational hypertension and other pregnancy complications that raise long-term cardiac risk.
SCAD & Microvascular Disease
Diagnosis and management of spontaneous coronary artery dissection and coronary microvascular dysfunction — conditions that disproportionately affect women.
Atypical Symptom Evaluation
Thorough assessment of the subtler, often-dismissed symptoms women present with, ensuring timely diagnosis and personalised treatment.
Women's Heart Health: Cardiometabolic Disease and the Risk of Cardiac Events
How cardiometabolic conditions — hypertension, diabetes, abnormal lipids, and obesity — interact across women's life stages to drive cardiac risk, and a practical prevention framework.
Book a women's heart health consultation
If your symptoms have been dismissed or you want a thorough, women-focused cardiac assessment, arrange a private consultation with Dr Wamil in London or Oxford.
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