Today's Woman and Heart Disease

We would like to give you some facts today in our blog about heart disease in women. So few women are paying attention to their symptoms, and often it is because their symptoms are so vaguer, or they are spending so much time tending everyone else they lose track of watching their own health. Did you know that Heart Disease kills over 500,000 women every year? And as a woman ages and passes the days of menopause possibly earlier then others, coronary artery disease rates in women are 2 to 3 times those of women the same age before menopause.
Heart attack is especially dangerous among women. Although women are about as likely as men to have a heart attack, they are more likely to die within a year after their first heart attack. Researchers have proposed a number of possible reasons for this finding, including:

Women tend to have “atypical” symptoms that are actually signs of a heart attack
Women’s heart attacks may be more damaging
Women are usually about 10 years older then men at the time of their first attack
Women have smaller hearts and coronary arteries than men

What are the symptoms we all should be aware of?

The number one symptom that men and women experience is chest discomfort. But it doesn't have to be severe pain. It can be pressure that radiates up to the neck, maybe radiating into the back or shoulders or down the arm. Shortness of breath, nausea, fatigue, light-headedness, palpitations, or where the heart seems to be racing, nausea can be a particularly prominent symptom in women, and shortness of breath seems to be more prominent.

Risks:

1. Smoking (Don’t start, and if you smoke, STOP)
2. Plaque building up in the arteries
3. High blood pressure, high cholesterol, particularly high LDL cholesterol

Watch this informative video from ScienceDaily about Heart Disease.

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