{"id":337,"date":"2003-04-08T10:07:44","date_gmt":"2003-04-08T15:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=337"},"modified":"2003-04-08T10:07:44","modified_gmt":"2003-04-08T15:07:44","slug":"women-and-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/04\/women-and-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Women and Heart Disease This"},"content":{"rendered":"

Women and Heart Disease<\/b>
\nThis month’s issue of Shape Magazine<\/i><\/a> had an imformative article about heart disease and women. Heart disease is the number 1 killer of women in this country, yet I think many people (well at least I do) tend to associate it more as a male disease. It was a good reality check for me because my both my parents suffer from heart disease, which automatically puts me at a higher risk.
\nI wanted to link the article, but could not find it online.
\nI did find an interesting site, National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease<\/a>.
\nHere are some of their facts:
\nPrevalence:
\n*\t8,000,000 American women are currently living with heart disease – 10% of women ages 45 – 64 and 25% age 65 and over.
\n*\t6,000,000 of women today have a history of heart attack and\/or angina or both. Nearly
\n*\t13% of women age 45 and over have had a heart attack.
\n*\t435,000 American women have heart attacks each year; 83,000 are under age 65 and 9,000 are under age 45. Their average age is 70.4.
\n*\t4,000,000 women suffer from angina, and 47,000 of them were hospitalized in 1999.
\nMortality:
\n*\tHeart disease is the leading cause of death of American women and kills 32% of them.
\n*\t43% of American women, or nearly 500,000, die each year of cardiovascular disease (heart disease and stroke).
\n*\t267,000 women die each year from heart attacks, which kill six times as many women as breast cancer.
\n*\t31, 837 women die each year of congestive heart failure, or 62.6% of all heart failure deaths.
\nmore…<\/a>
\nTo highlight some of the tips on heart disease prevention from the Shape <\/i> magazine:
\n–Eat good quality fats<\/a>
\n–Exercise as much as possible<\/a>
\n-Keep weight down
\n-Reduce stress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Women and Heart Disease This month’s issue of Shape Magazine had an imformative article about heart disease and women. Heart disease is the number 1 killer of women in this country, yet I think many people (well at least I do) tend to associate it more as a male disease. It was a good reality… Continue reading Women and Heart Disease This<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthy-living","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}