Heart Health For Her
Total heart health for women
Risk factors for heart disease
What is the heart truth?
"The Heart Truth" campaign was started by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to increase awareness of heart disease in women in the US and has been having some measure of success. As of the year 2000 only about 30% of American women were aware of the fact that heart disease is a major killer of women in the United States. Heart disease had always been seen as a disease of overworked middle-aged men and most women had no idea that they had a high risk of developing it as they got older. Awareness rose to about 55% in 2005 which was a definite improvement over the previous years. … [Read More...]
Removing your ovaries may be bad for your heart
Thousands of hysterectomies are carried out every year. Most of them are done in middle-aged women. Conventional wisdom has always dictated that the ovaries be removed at the same time to remove the risk of ovarian cancer. That is until now. Recent findings about ovaries and hysterectomies Research has shown that women who have their ovaries taken out during a hysterectomy are more likely to develop heart disease and to die from it, and more likely to develop lung cancer. On the other hand, they have virtually no risk of developing ovarian cancer and a lower risk of getting breast … [Read More...]