Category Archives: Heart Health Don’t sleep less than 6 hours or more than 9
A new U.S. study shows that postmenopausal women had increased risk of strokes if they sleep less than six hours a night or more than nine hours.
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The use of beta blocker drugs before surgery to cut the risk of heart problems may be counter-productive, a study suggests.
Researchers found patients given the drugs were a third more likely to die within a month of surgery than those given a dummy pill.
Those on the blood pressure-lowering drugs also had double the risk [...]
Women account for nearly half of all heart attack deaths. Heart disease is the number one killer of both women and men. Many female heart attack patients, present with non-specific symptoms or have normal EKG readings, make life-saving diagnosis and treatment problematic. Any test, or procedure that helps women get fast accurate treatment for heart [...]
Heart Attack Warning Signs—
Q: How would I know if I were having a heart attack?
Often, it is not easy to tell. But there are symptoms people may have. These are: an uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, fullness, or pain in the center of the chest that lasts more than a few minutes, or goes away and comes [...]
If you’re a woman, you may not believe you’re as vulnerable to a heart attack as men–but you are. Women account for nearly half of all heart attack deaths. Heart disease is the number one killer of both women and men.
There are differences in how women and men respond to a heart attack. Women are [...]
I just received this information from a dear friend. I was aware that female heart attacks are of a different nature than those of men, but this is the best description I’ve ever read…and I wanted to share it with my girl friends and readers.
Women and Heart Attacks (Myocardial infarction)
Women rarely have the same [...]
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