All Entries in the "Heart Disease" Category
Tips To Prevent Female Heart Attack
Heart Attack is the No. 1 killer among women; in fact women are more likely to die after a heart attack than men, according to studies. So obviously heart disease is something that women need to watch out for and guard against very keenly indeed! Some tips to prevent female heart attack are: Watch out [...]
Women More Likely To Die After Heart Attack
A recent study examined the likelihood of a person dying after having suffered a heart attack and found that women were far more likely to die within a month after a heart attack than men are. Though it is not fully clear why this is the case, the study suggested that the reasons may be [...]
What Is The No 1 Killer Among Women?
We may think breast cancer, but actually the number one killer of women is heart disease. February is American heart month and this write up talks about why it is that heart disease is so often not diagnosed among women and stressed in the importance of educating women about cardiovascular disease. The reason that heart [...]
Feeling Hopeless Ups Stroke Risk In Healthy Women
Feelings of hopelessness are not just unfortunate for women, they are one of the major risk factors of stroke. Otherwise healthy women who are chronically hopeless are more prone to develop plague in neck arteries that can trigger stroke, according to U.S researchers. Susan Everson-Rose of the University of Minnesota Medical School, says, “these findings [...]
The Disease That Claims More Women’s Lives
Were you expecting this to be an entry about breast cancer? That is not surprising. Many people are not aware that the number one disease that claims women’s lives is heart disease. Women who have heart disease are often undiagnosed because the symptoms of heart disease in women are not the same as the symptoms [...]
Optimism Good For Women’s Heart And Longevity
According to a study published in the Journal of American Heart Association, women with optimistic attitude and positive outlook towards life may live longer and also be less likely to develop heart diseases when compared to those who take dimmer view of life. Researchers found that among more than 97,000 U.S. women between the ages [...]
How Women Experience Heart Attack Symptoms?
Think you know the classic symptoms of a heart attack? You’re probably thinking of crushing pain in the chest, radiating down the left arm. Right? Only if you’re a man! You see, women experience pain differently from men, largely because of their different hormones. Identifying the symptoms of a heart attack in women can be [...]
Family Stress Causes More Heart Attacks In Women
If you are a woman living in a multi-generational household—you, your husband, your children, and your parents all under one roof, for example—you are twice as likely to have a heart attack or find yourself needing heart surgery as women who live only with their husbands, or with their husbands and children. It is thought [...]
