Heart Disease Prevention: Mistakes Women Make

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Women heart patients who has suffered a heart attack have recollected experiencing early or prodomic symptoms within the weeks preceding their heart attack. Usually felt weariness and sleep problems are the most commonly experienced symptoms. The other signs and symptoms comprise of anxiety, unsettled stomach or succinctness in breathing. Severe symptoms felt at the time of heart attack were briefness of breath, cold sweat, giddiness, exhaustion and feeling weak. Many women ignore these signs which lead to lack of treatment at right time.
http://www.womenhealthcenter.net/symptoms-of-heart-disease-in-women.html

jadesmith of FL 5:01AM November 25, 2010

Thanks for the focus on education about heart disease. Up until August 2009 I knew nothing. The shape of the engineering virus spread through the body and infected cells, but not cause disease. The researchers have refocused the modified virus to bind to proteins on the surface of many cancer cells. They were also charged with a fluorescent protein that allowed them to see where the virus has finished. He went directly to cancer cells, and elsewhere. Over time, this research could lead to gene therapy technique in human patients.

suzane of FL 12:25AM October 28, 2010

Many women delay because they don’t want to worry their family, or they are afraid that the symptoms are so vague that it’s a false alarm. Women may also not ask that further tests be done to rule out a mild heart attack. Common tests conducted to tell if you are having or have had a heart attack include an electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG), a cardiac enzyme blood test, a nuclear scan, and a coronary angiogram.

syra of FL 12:22AM October 28, 2010

I have been wondering about heart attacks every since I was diagnosed with high blood pressure.
The thing is there are so many symptoms and no sure way of knowing if these symptoms are related to heart attacks or something else.
I know I don't want to worry my family if I'm light headed and dizzy from not eating and being tired so I try my remedies before I'll go to a doctor.
Also at times it seems like the medical commnunity as a whole doesn't have a clue, any more than I do, and I would rather take my own advice.
I think a lot of women are like me in the respect that we don't want to bother anyone, and what if all it is, is that I need a nap?
For some they can afford to be safe, for the rest of us we have to make do with what we can do.
How do you know what symptoms to take seriously?

Anna of OH 3:46PM March 15, 2010

It is a notorious that a) the medical industry is controlled by the pharmaceutical and insurance corporations, and b) that these corporate sharks have a vested interested in keeping the public, including doctors ignorant of the importance of nutrition in building and maintaining good health.
Vitamins, for example, are related to stress. Vit C and B vitamins are water soluble, meaning they are not stored in the body and need constant replenishing. As stress uses these up quickly, we need to replenish the body. The ridiculous low minimum daily requirement (ala FDA), does little to build health. Independent research keeps telling us that we need a minimum of 2-3 grams/day of Vit C. Vit D3 is involved in over 2000 body biochemical processes. The 400 IU/daily recommended by the FDA can only keep us deficient if we listen to that agency-an agency controlled by big pharma! Studies indicate we need 1000-4000 IU/daily in normal health. In sickness, particularly diseases such as cancer, we may need 50,000-100,000 IU/daily to keep our levels up to the 50-60 required to fight those diseases. An example, a friend with recurrent breast cancer is taking 4000 IU/daily and her Vit D levels are at a dangerously low 13. Her doctor, who obviously doesn;t know much about nutrition is scared to recommend more despite the low levels in her body. This is a death in the making!
The list of nutritional benefits are numerous and cited in the literature--but not in the medical journals controlled by big pharma. In those prestigious magazines we are treated to a constant barage of phoney documentation, ghost written articles by big pharma, falsely interpreted and/or presented data, etc. How many scandals around this corporately controlled marketing spin are we to allow before rising up and demanding governmental control of this disease producing propaganda.

tamarque of NY 8:55AM February 16, 2010

The Framingham study evidence underlying the “lipid hypothesis” was never strong to start with. Since then a massive lipid lowering campaign has shown no effect on heart disease rates. While an elegant and seemingly intuitive hypothesis, more and more openly people are rightly questioning the wisdom of the cholesterol lowering campaign.
Cholesterol is an essential component of every cell membrane and important for myriad physiologic functions. When Dr. Uffe Ravnskov, MD PhD looked at the medical literature he found something quite surprising had been documented there. On average people with higher cholesterol live longer. Cholesterol is a mediator in heart disease but blood cholesterol levels have next to no effect on heart disease rates again heart disease rates mostly unchanged since the advent of the massive cholesterol lowering campaign. Here is something else to consider, as any chemist will tell you, cholesterol is a single molecule. How then are there "good" and "bad" cholesterol molecules. It is at best scientifically imprecise and at worst a crass marketing ploy to talk about the levels of high and low denisty lipoprotein (say it again lipoprotein i.e. a protein - they are carrier proteins) as implying different cholesterol molecules. Then again the statin cholesterol lowering drug class alone is a 30 billion dollar a year industry. Of course none of this even begins to cover the serious side effects of statins
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Paul of MD 6:37PM February 11, 2010

Women have big hearts and are generally the universal care givers. Yet, they are also the last people to listen to or take care of their hearts.They follow their hearts in matters of love but not matters of life. If someone they love complains of chest pain, it is the care giver who runs for the phone. However, when a woman has shortness of breath or jaw pain, we rationalize it as having too many “balls in the air” as we juggle our lives, family, friends, pets, dinner, laundry… . So, we sit for ten minute, a long time in our busy schedule, and take it easy until the symptoms ease or pass.
Few women realize that jaw pain is a symptom of heart attack. If a busy family life can make you clench your fist and teeth, surely that is the culprit of the jaw pain, not a heart attack. Think again!Our body is speaking to us.
As women, our bodies have been speaking to us from the beginning of womankind. Our bodies tell up when we are ovulating, menstruating, pregnant and when a family member is in trouble. This information comes to us through dreams, intuitions and symptoms. This is the spirit of our being. We must listen to ourselves- our inner voices- our intuitions and symptoms. Listen to your heart and follow your female instincts. Take care of your spirit and it will take care of you.
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Kathleen O'Keefe-Kanavos of FL 2:47PM February 11, 2010