• Question: What is the biggest misconception people have about the heart?

    Asked by Cristina Riquelme to Cristina, Gemma, Loan, Michael, Praveen on 10 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Cristina Villa del Campo

      Cristina Villa del Campo answered on 10 Nov 2015:

      Hi Cristina! (we share the name!)

      That is a tricky one. I was thinking about silly things like it is not shaped like the heart you draw in a cartoon or that it doesn’t have feelings (i.e. when we feel something we don’t feel in the heart) but I don’t think people have those misconceptions anymore, so I will keep thinking and see if I can come up with something. I am asking in my lab as well!

    • Photo: Michael Schneider

      Michael Schneider answered on 10 Nov 2015:

      A BIG misconception is that heart disease is a disease of men. As many women die of heart disease as of breast cancer, but that’s not widely recognised by the public.

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