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Cardiopathy is not Just a Man's Disease
Mistakenly considered a man's illness, heart disease is the number one killer of women. This might seem a stark and dramatic introduction to the subject of women and heart disease but this disease is so serious and yet so misunderstood by women that perhaps drama is necessary to bring attention to this deadly killer. How common is heart disease in women? In fact, heart disease kills almost as many women as it does men. One in four women who die will die of heart disease. One in nine women between the age of 45 and 64 has some kind of cardiovascular disease. One in three women over the age of 65 has some kind of cardiovascular disease. This disease deserves our attention. It needs to have yours.
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The Mind Body Connection is not Just in Your Head!
There is a physical connection between the heart and the brain. In fact they are both made up of the same types of cells. Interestingly, poets have claimed for centuries that the heart has a "mind" of its own, hinting that there is a brain in the heart. Could it be true that the heart has a brain? If so, what does this tell us about emotional stress and health concerns?
Have you ever felt a pain in your heart when you were going through a bad break up or when you were dealing with the death of a close loved one? Technically your heart wasn't getting physically stabbed and there probably wasn't a person sitting on your chest so where does the pain come from?
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Women's Common Symptoms Heart Disease
What is the number one killer of women today throughout the world? It could be car accidents. Car accidents cause thousands of lives each day. Alcohol and related substances also take many women's lives each day. Both of these killers pale in comparison, however, to the effects of heart disease. Many people have thought that this is a man's issue. Men are more prone to stress induced diseases because they keep feeling bottled up.
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Women and Heart Disease; lower the risk know the facts
More than any other lethal combination researchers have looked at, women and heart disease have resulted in a higher percentage of deaths among women than breast and cervical cancer combined. For reasons yet unknown, women appear to be at greater risk of heart disease than men, outranking the incidence by a 2 to 1 ratio. Long overlooked by researchers as the subjects of heart disease studies, women also often died as a result of their physicians' lack of insight in diagnosing females. Finally that is changing. Knowing the facts about women and heart disease can literally mean the difference between life and death.
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 Handle Stress Hormones for Better Heart Health
According to cardiologist, endocrinologist and other health care providers, all forms of emotional stress such as depression, worry, anxiety and even anger can lead both indirectly and directly to a heart attack. Women more than men, suffer from a number of these stress related conditions thereby raising the level of risk in women for heart attacks. Handling those stress hormones for better heart health is essential. Your choices regarding sleeping, eating, exercising and just plain resting are absolutely the key to your personal plan for stress reduction.
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Early Detection and Treatment Save Lives From This Frequent Killer
Women's Heart Disease is the nation's number one killer and I'll bet that you didn't know that over a lifetime, it kills five times as many women as breast cancer! Don't let this happen to you or someone that you know. The week before usually includes the symptoms of a chesty cold or a slight chest infection followed by a pain across the jaw area, blue fingers, a sudden pain shooting up one arm followed by a burning sensation in the chest as if it had a very heavy weight on top of it. That is a sure fire case that someones heart is in trouble! Preventing death from a heart attack is all about detecting symptoms and getting help from a doctor quickly. Sadly, approximately half of deaths resulting from heart disease could have been prevented if the people experiencing the symptoms had received treatment straight away, especially within an hour of first having any chest pain.
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Heart Specific Exericses
We all think that it will be a good outcome. Exercise can always help, right? Well, usually. However, there are those instances where too much exercise, or the wrong kind, can be harmful. But, it is better to exercise than not. Exercise effect heart healthy exercise that is, can lead to a new you.The problem that most of us have is determining what types of exercise will be the most beneficial. Is it cardio exercise for your heart, mind and soul that you need? Working out at all effects all three, but there is a specific exercise effect on heart health.
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Hearts of Women Too Long Ignored
Heart health is something that many people take for granted. And the heart health of women has in the past,been presumed to be less problematic than that of men. This assumption led to a proliferation of neglect by medical industry leaders, researchers and institutions who ignored women's heart health for half a century while spending billions of dollars researching only hearts belonging to men. Heart failure and heart attack deaths in women far outweigh those from breast cancer and more women die annually than men from the same maladies.
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 Keeping Blood Pressure Low Now Pays Off Later
Blood pressure is a measurement of the blood flow that pushes through the walls of the arteries, and is forced through and away from the heart as it pumps blood throughout the body. The measurement of blood pressure is determined by the volume and velocity of blood pumped measured against the magnitude and elasticity of the arteries. Since high blood pressure contributes to a number of health issues in women, focusing on high blood pressure in women could mean the difference between life or death.
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