Go Red
According to American Heart Association statistics released on this week 483,800 American women died from heart disease and stroke in 2003, the latest year for which detailed information is available. Another 6 million women had coronary heart disease and 3.1 million had strokes, the association said in a special issue of its journal Circulation.
Despite this, studies indicate that only slightly more than half of women (55%) are aware that their greatest health risk is cardiovascular disease (CVD). CVD affects more women's lives than the next five leading causes of death combined, including cancer, chronic lung disease, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, and accidents.
Today is "Go Red for Women" day, an event started to raise women's awareness that their greatest health risk is heart disease. Tell your friends, your mother, your sister, and your lover. Today, tell every woman you know to love their hearts by exercising, eating well, losing weight, and getting to the doctor for an annual check-up. Offer to help them by walking with them, encouraging them, driving them, whatever it takes. Just don't let your loved one become a statistic this year.
Laurie
Related Topics: Five Steps to a Healthier Heart, Simple Changes to Lower Your Heart Risks
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Despite this, studies indicate that only slightly more than half of women (55%) are aware that their greatest health risk is cardiovascular disease (CVD). CVD affects more women's lives than the next five leading causes of death combined, including cancer, chronic lung disease, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, and accidents.
Today is "Go Red for Women" day, an event started to raise women's awareness that their greatest health risk is heart disease. Tell your friends, your mother, your sister, and your lover. Today, tell every woman you know to love their hearts by exercising, eating well, losing weight, and getting to the doctor for an annual check-up. Offer to help them by walking with them, encouraging them, driving them, whatever it takes. Just don't let your loved one become a statistic this year.
Laurie
Related Topics: Five Steps to a Healthier Heart, Simple Changes to Lower Your Heart Risks
Technorati Tags: reddress, goredforwomen
6 Comments:
a great reminder for a great cause... our office all wore red one day last week and raised about $500, most of wihch came from staff but also from patients (even AFTER they paid their co-pays)
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It is definitely something that more people should pay attention to. My sister and I especially are realizing this now, she is thirty-three and had two arrhythmias and a pacemaker, and I am twenty-eight and am having to go to a cardiologist because of right ventricular hypertrophy of unknown cause. People need to realize heart disease doesn't just happen to other people, it can happen to them too. If anyone has any information on right ventricular hypertrophy and possible underlying causes, that would be great. I was reading that it can be caused by chronic bronchitis/pneumonia and the like, and I definitely fit into that category.
Question. Am adopted, 39 yrs old and have recently been told I have RVH. EKG was positive, but xray is norm and echo report shows that I have it. I have no family history due to the adoption. My son did have ASD closure. I have no VSD, carry fluid in the lungs occasionally in the legs, face and hands. I lack appetite, energy, and feel achy and sick most of the time now. This has resulted in the loss of two jobs, and is a strain on my body and family life. I am constantly fatigued, weak, and ill. Have been trying to get some help but have been unable to find out a lot of information on this condition. Can you give me some help please. Thanks for anything you can offer. Should also let you know I have asthma, don't drink, don't smoke, choles is 207, don't even drink caffiene anymore. Do have history of depression and can tell you that this is effecting this. I hate to put this out for all to see, but if it helps someone else is worth it. :)
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