Recent findings suggest that many women experience a different form of heart disease that is harder to detect and have led researchers to call for improved treatment and prevention strategies, the Wall Street Journal reports (Winslow, Wall Street Journal, 2/14). According to research released earlier this month by NIH, as many as three million women in the U.S. might have a cardiovascular condition called coronary microvascular syndrome that places them at higher risk of a heart attack but often goes undiagnosed because its symptoms do not appear on an angiogram. The condition causes plaque to accumulate evenly inside the major arteries and smaller blood vessels or the arteries to fail to expand correctly or go into spasm, the findings show. Other symptoms include fatigue, upset stomach and pain in the jaw or shoulders. However, because many women with symptoms do not show signs of blocked arteries on standard tests, doctors sometimes send them home without treatment or refer them to psychiatrists. The findings, which appear in a supplement to the Feb. 7 issue of the