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Women's Heart Disease
Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of U.S. women, triggering more fatalities than the seven other leading causes of death combined.
Eighty percent of heart attacks in women can be prevented by educate women to protect themselves by getting exercise, eating healthy and lowering their cholesterol and blood pressure.
The 8 million American women who suffer from heart disease develop the same conditions as men, including angina (chest pain), stroke (loss of brain function caused by blockage of the blood vessels), coronary artery disease (in which plaque builds up in the blood vessels) and heart failure (in which the heart can't pump enough blood to the body), but women's symptoms can be dramatically different.
If women have high cholesterol levels, the plaque that builds up in their arteries tends to be softer and more diffuse than that of men. If they have blockages, these obstructions tend to lie not in the major arteries but in the often-overlooked smaller branches.
Women's heart attack symptoms are also usually more subtle. "Women tend to have less discomfort in their chest and more of the other associated symptoms like indigestion, backache, a vague feeling of malaise, unusual fatigue, dizziness and palpitations," says Dr. Robert Bonow, chief of cardiology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. "Women also tend to have heart attacks in their 60s and 70s, decades later than men."
Women are advised to quit smoking, get 30 minutes of exercise a day and load up on fruits, vegetables and whole grains while going light on red meat and cheese. And get the heart condition regularly evaluated starting at age 40, and maintain healthy trigliceride, blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
Another warning also focused on factors that put women at highest risk of developing heart trouble such as being overweight, having diabetes, being African American and being over the age of 65.
Nancy Loving, director of the National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease says "For too long, we've lived with the stereotype that women are not at risk for heart disease, but women are finally beginning to take ownership of this epidemic and to claim it as their most pressing health issue."
Eighty percent of heart attacks in women can be prevented by educate women to protect themselves by getting exercise, eating healthy and lowering their cholesterol and blood pressure.
The 8 million American women who suffer from heart disease develop the same conditions as men, including angina (chest pain), stroke (loss of brain function caused by blockage of the blood vessels), coronary artery disease (in which plaque builds up in the blood vessels) and heart failure (in which the heart can't pump enough blood to the body), but women's symptoms can be dramatically different.
If women have high cholesterol levels, the plaque that builds up in their arteries tends to be softer and more diffuse than that of men. If they have blockages, these obstructions tend to lie not in the major arteries but in the often-overlooked smaller branches.
Women's heart attack symptoms are also usually more subtle. "Women tend to have less discomfort in their chest and more of the other associated symptoms like indigestion, backache, a vague feeling of malaise, unusual fatigue, dizziness and palpitations," says Dr. Robert Bonow, chief of cardiology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. "Women also tend to have heart attacks in their 60s and 70s, decades later than men."
Women are advised to quit smoking, get 30 minutes of exercise a day and load up on fruits, vegetables and whole grains while going light on red meat and cheese. And get the heart condition regularly evaluated starting at age 40, and maintain healthy trigliceride, blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
Another warning also focused on factors that put women at highest risk of developing heart trouble such as being overweight, having diabetes, being African American and being over the age of 65.
Nancy Loving, director of the National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease says "For too long, we've lived with the stereotype that women are not at risk for heart disease, but women are finally beginning to take ownership of this epidemic and to claim it as their most pressing health issue."
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