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Women’s Heart Attack-More Healthy Heart Tips

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

We have been discussing tips to keep your heart healthy so you won’t ever fall into the category of women who have heart attacks.

Today, we will cover 5 more tips for a healthy heart.

Tip #9: Sip Green Team. Drinking a cup of green tea can increase your blood flow in as little as 30 minutes according to a recent study in the “European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation.” It is the antioxidants in the green tea which improves blood vessel function.

Tip #10: Get The Right Amount of “Shut-Eye”. Women who got just 5 hours a sleep a night are twice as likely to fall into the women’s heart attack group. Sleep deprivation can promote calcium build-up in the arteries which can lead to plaque says Dr. Michelle Miller. So ladies, get in your “shut-eye.”

Tip #11: Get a Furball. Pets can be very soothing. A recent study found that cat owners were up to 40% less likely to die from a heart attack than those without a cat friend. This study was done by Dr. Adnan Quershi of the Zeenalt Quersahi Stroke Research Center. Dogs probably provide the same benefit.

Tip #12: Clear the Air. Reseach from the University of Michigan found that pollutants such as soot, nitrates, and metals can cause inflammation in the body. This can result in the hearts arteries being less flexible and can trigger a spike in blood pressure. A suggestion would be to invest in a HEPA filter such as those sold by Honeywell ($111 at amazon.com).

More tips for one month to a healthy heart and you will follow in the next post.

To Your Heart’s Health
Monique Hawkins
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Women’s Heart Problems|Womens Heart Disease – How to Prevent Or Reverse It

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Women’s heart problems is a growing area of concern. However, there are things that women can do to prevent or reverse this progression of the deadly disease. Let’s take a look at what their options are.

Womens Heart Disease – How to Prevent Or Reverse It
By Darryl Hunter

One of the major health concerns facing modern women today is heart disease. It has long been seen as a health problem for men but more women die from heart attacks than men and many women mistakenly believe they are not at risk.

The scariest part of womens heart disease is that alot of the time it can go undetected until it is a major problem. Many women that die from it had no previous signs or symptoms.

Studies are starting to show that women are affected differently by heart problems and that women also exhibit different symptoms which can result in the problem being undetected.

Part of the problem with heart disease is the blocking of the arteries around the heart. If the arteries begin to block, blood flow to the body is reduced and pressure can build at the site of the block. This pressure can cause major problems.

In men this tends to be in the major arteries and is characterised by intense sharp pains. Womens heart disease however can happen in minor arteries which is equally dangerous but harder to detect as there isn’t the major pain associated with it and the pain caused can easily be misdiagnosed.

Some of the major factors that lead to heart problems are being over weight, a bad lifestyle, poor diet, cholesterol levels and genetics.

The good news is that apart from your genetics the other factors can be controlled and reduced to help prevent the development of heart problems. Even if your genetics mean you are more at risk of heart disease if you prevent the other factors then you have a far better chance of not developing it.

Heart disease can be prevented and if you already have it it can be reversed. To find out more about how to prevent womens heart disease and how you can live life without the worry of getting heart disease Click Here Now: http://www.squidoo.com/womensheartdisease

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Women’s Heart Attack|Women’s Heart Attack and Your Heart Rate

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

Did you know that women’s heart attack risk can be partically determined by their heart rate? I did not know this until I read an article by Dr. Susan Aldridge, medical journalist, PhD. Here is what she had to say:

Summary

Previously resting heart rate has been shown to be linked to increased heart attack risk in women. Now researchers for the long-running Women’s Health Initiative find a similar relationship for women. Measuring heart rate might therefore be a low tech and simple way of pinpointing women at higher risk of heart attack.

Introduction

The resting heart rate, which has a value of between 60 and 80 beats per minute, is an indicator of the tone of the autonomic nervous system. As such, it has been found to predict coronary events in men – with high rates indicating higher risk. But studies in women have not shown this association, save for one report from the National Health And Nutrition Examination Survey which did show a link between heart rate and cardiovascular death among African-American women. The relationship between heart rate and stroke in women is also unclear.

What was done

Researchers at George Washington University and elsewhere carried out this study as part of the Women’s Health Initiative which involves 161,808 postmenopausal women. They recorded cardiovascular events (heart attack and stroke) during eight years of follow up and searched for any relationship between these events and resting heart rate.

What was found

There were 2281 heart attacks and 1877 women with stroke during the follow up period. Women with a higher resting heart rate – more than 76 beats per minute – were more likely to have a heart attack than those with a lower rate, defined as less than 62 beats per minute. No such link was found with stroke.

What this study means

Resting heart rate has more clinical significance than previously believed. It could be a simple and low cost way of assessing a woman’s heart attack risk, in conjunction with other assessments.

Source

* Hsia J Larson JC et al Resting heart rate as a low tech predictor of coronary events in women: prospective cohort study British Medical Journal Online First February 2009 doi:10.1136/bmj.b219

http://www.healthandage.com/professional/Heart-rate-can-predict-womens-heart-attack-risk

So, watch your heart rate. Do all you can to take care of you and your heart. If you do, heart disease is something you never will have to worry about.

Have a Merry Christmas!

Monique Hawkins
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Women’s Heart Attack-Why Daylight’s Saving Time Can Be Dangerous to Heart Health

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

I came across an interesting article in the October 2009 of “Bottom Line Personal.”

The article talked about how switching away from daylight’s saving time can be dangerous to your health. The switch could trigger women’s heart attack as well as men. In a nutshell, here is why.

“Heart Attack Alert: Switching Away from Daylight Saving Time Can Be Danergous to Your Health” . The magazine interviewed Michael Terman, PhD who has a long list of credential including professor of clinical psychology at Columbia University and director of clinical chronbiology at New York State Psychiatric Institure.

We all know that on Sunday, November 1, you fall back one hour and one March the 14th, 2010 you spring forward one hour. Researchers have looked at the rate of heart attacks around the time switches and found that in the spring there was a 5-10% increase in heart attacks during the 3 days after the switch to DST. In the fall, there was a significant spike heart attacks on the Monday after the switch to ST.

Why? Well, researchers theorized that the sleep disruptions may hurt the heart by increasing the activity of the sympathetic nervous system, which speeds heart rate and by increasing the level cytokines, immune cells that spark inflammation and damage arteries.

How to protect our heart health? Dr. Terman recommends the following:

-Gradually set the alarm later. For instance in the fall, allow your circadian clock to drift one hour later during the week or so after the switch. For example, if you normally wake up at 7:00 Am, set the alarm for 6:00 AM ST on Sunday morning of the switch. Then gradually set the alarm 10 mintues later each day until you reach 7:00 AM. In the spring, just reverse it.

-Exercise daily. This stabilizes the circadian rhythm

-Eat regular meals

-Take melatonin the right way. Take a very small amount-0.25 mg 5 hours before your bedtime the week before DST. Your circadian clock will sense that nightime has begun and will adjust itself towards earlier sleep onset.

-Use a dawn simulator. You can adjust your circadian rhythm using this device that plugs into your light fixture and “simulates” the outdoor transistion from a starlight level of light to sunrise level of light. The device allows you to gradually move “dawn” later during the week or so in the fall and later in the day duirn the week or so switch to DST. This can be ordered at http://www.cet.org. The cost is $215

This was a very interesting article. To read it in its entirety, you can go to http://www.bottomlinesecrets.com and look for the October 2009 issue.

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To Your Success,
Monique Hawkins
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Heart Disease and Women-Heart Disease and Your Weight

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Many factors contribute to women having heart disease. Did you know that you should be very careful with your weight if you don’t want to develop this very serious disease? Here is why.

Heart Disease and Your Weight

By Jennifer R. Scott, About.com

Updated: December 08, 2008
http://weightloss.about.com/od/obesityhealth/a/heartdisease.htm

What is Heart Disease?
Heart disease is a number of abnormal conditions affecting the heart and the blood vessels in the heart. Types of heart disease include coronary artery disease, heart failure, and arrhythmia. The most common form of heart disease is coronary artery disease, a narrowing or blockage of coronary arteries, which is the major reason people have heart attacks.

How Prevalent is Heart Disease?
According to the Centers for Disease Control, heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States and is a major cause of disability. In 2002, almost 700,000 people died of heart disease, just over half of which were women. These statistics mean that nearly 30% all U.S. deaths were due to heart disease.

Heart disease has been the deadliest health condition for women for 100 years. According to the American Heart Association, heart disease has been the leading killer of adult females since 1908.

How is Weight Connected to Heart Disease?
Overweight is considered a major risk factor for both coronary heart disease and heart attack. Being 20% overweight or more significantly increases your risk for developing heart disease, especially if you have a lot of abdominal fat. The American Heart Association has found that even if you have no other related health conditions, obesity itself increases risk of heart disease.

Being sedentary causes heart disease risk to increase, possibly even more so for women -– inactive females are more likely to become diabetic, have high blood pressure and/or high cholesterol. All three of these conditions increase the chance of developing heart disease.

Apples vs. Pears
Your risk of developing heart disease may be heightened even more by the way your weight is distributed on your body. Being overweight and “apple-shaped” — meaning you carry most of your excess weight in your abdominal area — is considered riskier than being overweight and “pear-shaped.” Apple-shaped individuals also have many other increased health risks including high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, diabetes, and stroke.

To find out if your waistline increases your risk of heart disease, you can measure yourself with a measuring tape. You may need a partner to help you measure accurately. The measurement should be taken at the narrowest part of your waist. A high-risk waistline is 35 inches or higher for women and 40 inches or higher for men.

What You Can Do
The good news is, reducing your weight by just 10% can begin to lower your risk of developing heart disease and other obesity-related health problems. Heart disease can often be connected to “known risk factors” with being overweight considered a “modifiable” risk factor (a risk you can do something to prevent). Age and race, on the other hand, are “nonmodifiable” risk factors.

In addition to managing your weight, you can reduce your chances of developing heart disease by controlling other related risk factors such as: controlling your blood pressure, lowering your cholesterol, quitting smoking and getting enough exercise.

A healthy diet is also an important part of lowering your risk of heart disease. The American Heart Association recommends a diet that contains no more than 30% of daily calories from fat. For example, if you eat a diet of 2,000 calories per day, no more than 600 calories should come from fat.

To assess your caloric intake and recommended calories from fat, visit My Fat Translator, a Web site from the American Heart Association.

To learn more about heart disease, visit The American Heart Association or About.com’s Heart Disease site.

Sources:

American Heart Association. Diseases & Conditions. 1 February 2008.

American Heart Association. Obesity & Overweight. 1 February 2008.

Centers for Disease Control. CDC Heart Disease. 7 February 2008.

Centers for Disease Control. CDC Deaths,Leading Causes for 2002. National Vital Statistics Reports 2005;53(17) as qtd. in DHDSP – Heart Disease – Facts and Statistics. 7 February 2008.

U.S. National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health/Medline Plus. Medline Plus: Heart Diseases 4 February 2008.

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To Your Success,
Monique Hawkins
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Heart Disease Symptoms Women-Warning Signs of Heart Disease & Heart Attack

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

In this post, I will be sharing a educational video with you about Heart Disease Symptoms Women-Warning Signs of Heart Disease & Heart Attack. In it, both men and women discuss their experiences as victims of heart attacks.

The dramatic, moving stories of three heart attack survivors and their families illustrate the importance of heeding heart attack warning signs and seeking medical care quickly. They vividly convey how a real heart attack may differ from the stereotypical “movie heart attack” and how getting immediate treatment can save lives. The warm and sympathetic narration by an emergency department physician explains what a heart attack is, the treatments that can save lives if given quickly, why many heart attack victims delay seeking care, and how to make a heart attack survival plan.

I know you will find the video informative.

Keep your heart healthy!

Monique Hawkins
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Women and Heart Disease-Some FAQ

Friday, October 9th, 2009

Those women who are concerned about their potential for developing heart disease usually have many questions. I recently found a site that answers many questions about women and heart disease.

Below are a few concerns many women usually have. You can visit http://www.womenshealth.gov for even more information.

Do women need to worry about heart disease?

Yes. Among all U.S. women who die each year, one in four dies of heart disease. In 2004, nearly 60 percent more women died of cardiovascular disease (both heart disease and stroke) than from all cancers combined. The older a woman gets, the more likely she is to get heart disease. But women of all ages should be concerned about heart disease. All women should take steps to prevent heart disease.

Both men and women have heart attacks, but more women who have heart attacks die from them. Treatments can limit heart damage but they must be given as soon as possible after a heart attack starts. Ideally, treatment should start within one hour of the first symptoms.

If you think you’re having a heart attack, call 911 right away. Tell the operator your symptoms and that you think you’re having a heart attack.

Do women of color need to worry about heart disease?

Yes. African American and Hispanic American/Latina women should be concerned about getting heart disease because they tend to have more risk factors than white women. These risk factors include obesity, lack of physical activity, high blood pressure, and diabetes. If you’re a woman of color, take steps to reduce your risk factors.

What does high blood pressure have to do with heart disease?

Blood pressure is the force your blood makes against the walls of your arteries. The pressure is highest when your heart pumps blood into your arteries – when it beats. It is lowest between heart beats, when your heart relaxes. A doctor or nurse will write down your blood pressure as the higher number over the lower number. For instance, you could have a blood pressure of 110/70 (read as “110 over 70″). A blood pressure reading below 120/80 is usually considered normal. Very low blood pressure (lower than 90/60) can sometimes be a cause of concern and should be checked out by a doctor.

High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a blood pressure reading of 140/90 or higher. Years of high blood pressure can damage artery walls, causing them to become stiff and narrow. This includes the arteries carrying blood to the heart. As a result, your heart cannot get the blood it needs to work well. This can cause a heart attack.

A blood pressure reading of 120/80 to 139/89 is considered prehypertension. This means that you don’t have high blood pressure now but are likely to develop it in the future.

How can I lower my blood pressure?

If you have hypertension or prehypertension, you may be able to lower your
blood pressure by:

* losing weight if you are overweight or obese
* getting at least 2 hours and 30 minutes of moderate physical activity or 1 hour and 15 minutes of vigorous activity each week.
* limiting alcohol to one drink per day
* quitting smoking if you smoke
* reducing stress
* following the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) Eating Plan, which includes cutting down on salt and sodium and eating healthy foods, such as fruits, vegetables, and low-fat dairy products

If lifestyle changes do not lower your blood pressure, your doctor may prescribe medicine.

Remember to visit http://www.womenshealth.gov/ the site where all this information came from.

To Your Health
Monique Hawkins
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Heart attack symptoms women- Statistics Don’t Lie

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Heart attack symptoms women, and the number of women who have heart disease is very problematic. It is very important for women to get educated and then take the right steps if they believe they are at risk.

Here is what the stats say about this dangerous disease and what you can do about.

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Women and Heart Disease – Statistics Don’t Lie
By Barb Hicks

The statistics for heart disease in women are astounding. Women comprise 60% of all heart attack related deaths in the US every year, and are more likely to die from heart disease than men. Women tend to ignore the early warning signs of impending heart attacks because the symptoms are often vague and can resemble other conditions. Consequently, women are apt to delay getting treatment for their symptoms because they do not recognize the signs and do not understand their risks.

While risk factors remain the same for both men and women, compelling evidence suggests that women respond differently than men due to preconceived notions about heart disease, and do not seek treatment as early as they should. Women tend to be older with higher incidence of hypertension, higher cholesterol and blood sugar levels, but are less likely to be smokers. Women view heart disease as primarily a disease of men and never consider that their symptoms could be heart disease related. This could have dire repercussions should a heart attack ensue.

Women suffering heart attacks are more likely to experience shoulder and abdominal pain, as well as nausea, shortness of breath, and fatigue. These are symptoms that women generally do not associate with having a heart attack. They tend to blame their symptoms on something else entirely, denying themselves an opportunity to survive what could be a devastating heart attack event. The longer it takes to get treatment, the more likely hood of sustaining greater damage to the heart muscle itself.

Women who have had a heart attack report having symptoms in the weeks leading up to a heart attack, but never recognize its relationship to heart disease, putting themselves at risk for a second attack within five years after the first one.

It is curious to note that after arriving at the hospital emergency room, women may be confronted with a delay in validating that a heart attack has actually occurred. EKG testing has been found not to be consistent with what is considered to be classic symptoms of an attack on the heart, therefore, women are less likely to be admitted to the cardiac unit. In addition to this, women are less likely to receive life-saving thrombolytic medication as quickly as do men, thus statistically, women have a higher morality rate for heart attacks than men.

Barb Hicks is a featured health writer on Clivir.com – The Free Learning Community Site. She provides more information on Women Heart Disease and Hidden Heart Attack Signs in Women on Clivir.

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Female Heart Attack Symptoms: Make Sure You Are Aware of the Signs

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Many women die from heart attacks. It is the #1 killer for women. Since this is the case, it would be ideal for women to know female heart attack symptoms. This is especially important since the signs of a heart attack are different for women than men.

In a recent article, author Tracy Comforth discusses this very issue. Here is a brief blurb from the article:

Symptoms of Heart Attack in Women
By Tracee Cornforth, About.com, Updated: June 27, 2009

A Woman’s Heart: Symptoms of Heart Attack
Every year hundreds of thousands of women die as the result of a heart attack or other cardiovascular disease. What many people, including many healthcare professionals, don’t realize is that the symptoms of heart attack in women are often different than in men. Women are more likely to experience nausea, dizziness, and anxiety as symptoms that indicate a heart attack.

To read more of Tracy’s artice, visit http://womenshealth.about.com/cs/heartdisease/a/sympofheartatta.htm

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