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[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

Trump: I’m attacking Iran. I’m not attacking Iran. I’m attacking Iran. I’m not attacking Iran.

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[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

I'm a cardiologist. A 42-year-old mother of two came to my office complaining of jaw pain and crushing fatigue. She ran half-marathons. Her EKG was normal. Another doctor had sent her home with anxiety medication.
When I got her into the cath lab, I found severe microvascular disease — plaque choking the tiniest vessels of her heart, the ones standard angiograms routinely miss.
Her heart had been starving in silence while everyone told her she was stressed.
She is alive today. Too many women like her are not.
Heart disease kills more women than every cancer combined. And medicine is still diagnosing it through a male lens.
84% of cardiologists report having patients in the past year whose heart disease was misdiagnosed by another physician. Women with a STEMI heart attack have a 59% greater chance of being misdiagnosed compared to men. Women with an NSTEMI — 41% greater chance.
The reason is structural. For decades, we screened, tested, and treated women using a template built for men.
Men's heart attacks announce themselves — the crushing chest pain, the clutched fist, the Hollywood collapse. Women's hearts whisper. Crushing fatigue that feels like wearing a lead vest. Jaw pain written off as TMJ. Nausea blamed on a stomach bug. An ache between the shoulder blades blamed on a long week. Shortness of breath blamed on being out of shape.
For years, medicine called these "atypical" symptoms. They are not atypical. They are female-typical. Half of humanity is not a variant.
And the biology runs deeper than symptoms.
Women have smaller hearts and narrower coronary arteries. Plaque doesn't only clog the big highway vessels — it hides in the microvasculature, the tiny branches feeding the heart muscle itself. A woman can have a heart attack with a completely "clean" standard angiogram.
SCAD — spontaneous coronary artery dissection — occurs 90% of the time in women. Often young, fit women with zero traditional risk factors. It's the leading cause of heart attack in women under 50, accounting for roughly one quarter of all cases in that age group. Most doctors have never diagnosed one.
And some of the most dangerous cardiac risk factors are hidden in women's medical histories where no one thinks to look:
Preeclampsia or gestational hypertension doubles to quadruples lifetime heart disease and stroke risk. Pregnancy is the body's first cardiac stress test — and these complications are early warning sirens, not closed chapters.
Autoimmune disease — lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis — far more common in women, turbocharges inflammation and plaque formation at any age.
Cardiovascular disease in women aged 20-44 is projected to surge nearly 50% by 2050.
The youngest patients in my practice keep getting younger.
What every woman should ask her doctor — and what every doctor should be asking:
"Given my pregnancy history, autoimmune status, and family history — what is my full cardiovascular risk?" If they don't ask about preeclampsia or gestational diabetes, volunteer it.
"Should I have an Lp(a) test and a coronary calcium score?" Standard cholesterol panels miss too much. Lp(a) is genetic, one-time, and most women have never been tested.
"My tests came back normal but my symptoms haven't stopped — what's next?" Normal stress tests and angiograms can miss microvascular disease, spasm, and SCAD. Persistent symptoms warrant coronary CT angiography or cardiac MRI.
And if something feels wrong — say these exact words to your doctor: "I am concerned this could be my heart."
That single sentence changes the workup. Do not soften it. Do not apologize for it.
80% of heart disease is preventable. But the playbook has to be built for female biology.
Two decades ago, I wrote one of the first books warning that heart disease was the number one killer of women and that medicine was diagnosing it through a male lens. It was recognized by First Lady Laura Bush at the White House during the early years of the national conversation about women's heart health.
I'm haunted by how much of that book I could republish today unchanged.
The science has advanced. The awareness has grown. But the gap between what we know and what happens in the exam room is still costing women their lives.
Share this with every woman you love — and every doctor who treats them. READ MORE: https://t.co/4LRugiY8q2

[Ahmed Khalifa @_A_khalifa]

The Strait of Hormuz right now👇🏻

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

Winding down the war is the right call, but for any peace agreement/exit plan to work we must restrain Israel 1st.

Israel will thwart any peace deal or come back to us in a few months demanding more support to topple the Ayatollahs & IRGC unless we restrain them now.

Restraining the Israelis means taking away the military aid & support they need to conduct offensive military ops in Iran.

[Slim @onu_slim]

If you have parents who are 75 years and above, please read this carefully.

At that age, something quietly begins to change in them. Their bodies slow down, their energy fades, and the world they once understood starts moving faster than they can keep up with. The people they grew up with are gradually disappearing, their friends are fewer, their strength is not what it used to be, and the house that was once full of responsibility slowly becomes quiet.

Many of them begin to feel invisible.

They may repeat the same stories, ask the same questions, complain about little things, or become more sensitive than they used to be. What many people interpret as stubbornness is often loneliness. What looks like irritation is sometimes fear. They are slowly realizing that life is entering its final chapters.

At that stage, they no longer need us for money as much as they need us for presence.

A short phone call means more than we think. Sitting with them and listening to stories we have heard many times before means more than we realize. Being patient when they forget things means more than we understand.

One day the phone will ring and it will be the news we all try to avoid. When that day comes, the money you were chasing will still be there, the meetings you attended will still continue, but the opportunity to sit with them one more time will be gone forever.

If your parents are 75 and above, you are living in borrowed time with them.

Use it wisely.

[Learn Something @cooltechtipz]

How the clouds feel from inside ☁️💦

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@JMVala_Trades Sorry to hear that. Hope you have a quick recovery.

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@JMVala_Trades Very noble of you. Happy to contribute.

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@elonmusk Then suspend this bitch: @NikkiHaley

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@chigrl How long do the batteries last?

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@JMVala_Trades You've just provoked a lot of hate coming towards you by stating the facts

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@NickDiFabio1 I don't see a single book on Amazon with your name on it. What am I missing?

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@AheadoftheNews Looks delicious 😋

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@chaseleantj Love it. Thank you!

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@chigrl Seven 11 should pay you for this idea : )

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@AheadofthenewsP Would you consider having a webinar/training session? I am sure many people from this list would be willing to pay for it.

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@spectatorindex Now do the crypto market

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@Gringots_Goblin @Schandillia Same with Superman. No one recognizes him when he has his glasses on 😀

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@PeterGriffin720 @ndtv Is 14 years of jail time enough for gang rapists?