Women’s Heart Disease
Heart Disease in Women: The Number One Killer
Women’s heart disease is not thought of being as prevalent as men’s heart disease by the general public. We need to look at the fact to understand the seriousness of heart disease in women. Recent studies indicate that more than 8 million American women are currently living with heart disease. In fact, heart disease is the leading cause of death of American women and more women than men die of heart disease each year.
Heart disease in women, if present, can be as easily diagnosed and treated as in men. And as with men, the key to staying healthy is prevention. Women often engage in several risk factors throughout their lifetime that contribute to heart disease just as men do. Risk factors that increase the risk of heart disease in women and men include cigarette smoking, high cholesterol, high blood pressure
Women’s heart disease follows risk factors that need to be avoided as much as possible because women are so susceptible to the disease. Heart disease in women doesn’t need to be as much of an epidemic it has become. A few lifestyle changes will allow all women to live long and healthy lives without the risk for heart disease.
There are some risk factors that increase heart disease risk in women that can’t be helped. Age, heredity, and the effects of menopause are some. With this knowledge, women should arm themselves with information that will help them know just what they are dealing with.
Heart disease in women shouldn’t have such a high morality rate.
When a woman makes a few lifestyle changes such as exercising regular and often, eating a diet low in saturated fats, quitting smoking and making stress levels low, she can drastically reduce the risk of heart disease. Not only heart disease risk will be lowered but also so will the risk of other diseases.
Heart disease in women does claim many lives each and every year but the disease is manageable and it’s preventable. Women need to study and learn as much as they can about heart disease. Not many women realize that they have such a high possibility of getting heart disease. It’s important that they know that they have as great if not greater risk of getting the disease than men. With knowledge, women will have a step up on this horrible disease and, maybe one day, heart disease in women will be a thing of the past.
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November 14th, 2007 08:37
Art,
Thanks for publishing this info. I didn’t realize that heart disease is the leading cause of death of American women or that more women die of heart disease then men. Guess I better, stop talking about it & start exercising!
September 8th, 2009 00:47
Although many people think of heart disease as a man’s problem, women can and do get heart disease. I was in the same misconception regarding the heart disease, but was made aware by a medical checkup campaign. In fact, heart disease is the number one killer of women in the United States. It is also a leading cause of disability among women. The most common cause of heart disease is narrowing or blockage of the coronary arteries, the blood vessels that supply blood to the heart itself. This is called coronary artery disease and happens slowly over time. It’s the major reason people have heart attacks. Prevention is important: two-thirds of women who have a heart attack fail to make a full recovery. The older a woman gets, the more likely she is to get heart disease. But women of all ages should be concerned about heart disease. All women can take steps to prevent it by practicing healthy lifestyle habits. Actually, right now I am suffering from a blockage in the coronary artery and was once blocked up to 85%. I got the stent implantation which is a mesh like spring which is used to broaden the artery and hence restoring back the blood flow. You can see further information regarding stent operation from http://www.heartsite.com/html/stent.html. I got to know everything regarding my stent operation from this site. I was really unaware of such a blockage. I sometimes feel dizzy, restless, lazy, but thought that to be something related to mental ability, and hence never worried about it. Once I got my basic medical checkup at Elite health medical office in New York (www.elitehealth.com/new_york_ny_medical_office.php). The ECG report went to be something suspicious. So, they advised me to have further advance diagnosis to determine and assure regarding the problem in the heart. After my MRI, CT scan and other such scans it came to me as a shock that I was facing a problem of blockage. It was quite surprising to me, and as I was not aware of anything regarding this, I was really frightened. The doctors explained me every information regarding my health and its treatment, and suggested me to have stent operation. That was some dreadful days of my life, which I faced only because I was careless about my health. It was my luck that I somehow went for a basic checkup at elite health, but every woman out there may not be so lucky.
October 27th, 2009 17:18
Thanks for raising awareness of women’s health and heart disease.
I just wanted to add that a woman’s symptoms of heart attack can be very different than men’s symptoms.
That is one reason that women fail to get the help they need in time!
Women and doctors need to pay closer attention to save lives!
Learn and Live!
Many blessings,
Carrie
Heart Failure Solutions