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Heart Disease and other vascular disease in Women part 2
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Anne and I finish our discussion about women and cardiovascular disease.
By listening to these mp3 files you should be able to answer the following questions:
How prevalent is heart disease in women?
What are “Risk Factors”?
What is Hypertension?
What puts YOU at risk for cardiovascular disease?
What can you control to prevent heart disease?
What is the effect of Tobacco and Nicotine on heart disease?
How do you “get” Diabetes? What is the heart risk from Diabetes?
What is cholesterol? What is a cholesterol “particle”? How does the size of cholesterol particles affect our risk of heart disease?
Heart Disease and other vascular disease in Women part 1
Posted by: | CommentsCardiovascular disease (heart and blood vessel disease) is the number one cause of death in women. One in three women will have
Anne Vaillancourt
cardiovascular disease. The signs and symptoms will be different than in men and will usually present later (up to 10 years) than in men. This all depends on genetics and life style.
Genetics is what you inherit from your family. A clue to your genetics is present in the lives of older living and deceased relatives. When you might become menopausal, the problems like hypertension, diabetes, heart attack and brain attack (also called stroke) you might be susceptible to all represent possible risk (risk factors) you do not completely control. You do have some influence on gene expression (how the gene is used by your body) through your diet, your response to stress, whether or not you smoke or are exposed to smoke, and the amount and regularity of exercise through out your life.
In the following mp3, Anne Vaillancourt – the Menopause Mentor, and I discuss the variables affecting heart disease in women.
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