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While breast cancer gets plenty of attention, more women die of heart attacks. The fact is more than 500,000 women die from cardiovascular disease each year, according to the American Heart Association. That is about twice as many than from all types of cancer. One in 2.5 women will die of cardiovascular disease every year compared with one in every 30 women dying from breast cancer.
Women, and the people who love them, must be proactive in knowing their risk factors in keeping their hearts healthy. For example, women's symptoms for a heart attack are often different from those suffered by men. Some women may not have chest pain when having a heart attack but may have difficulty breathing and/or unusual and unexplained fatigue.
For more information about cardiovascular disease, consider attending a LifeBridge Health Women's Heart Screening on Tuesday, June 16, at the Woodlawn Community Center at 9 a.m. For just $10, you will receive a blood pressure screening, cholesterol screening, glucose testing, body composition analysis, heart health risk assessment based upon results, and brief counseling with a registered nurse. A cardiologist will review results with certain risk factors.
Click here for more information or to sign up today.
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For women's heart health, knowledge is power
While breast cancer gets plenty of attention, more women die of heart attacks. The fact is more than 500,000 women die from cardiovascular disease each year, according to the American Heart Association. That is about twice as many than from all types of cancer. One in 2.5 women will die of cardiovascular disease every year compared with one in every 30 women dying from breast cancer.
Women, and the people who love them, must be proactive in knowing their risk factors in keeping their hearts healthy. For example, women's symptoms for a heart attack are often different from those suffered by men. Some women may not have chest pain when having a heart attack but may have difficulty breathing and/or unusual and unexplained fatigue.
For more information about cardiovascular disease, consider attending a LifeBridge Health Women's Heart Screening on Tuesday, June 16, at the Woodlawn Community Center at 9 a.m. For just $10, you will receive a blood pressure screening, cholesterol screening, glucose testing, body composition analysis, heart health risk assessment based upon results, and brief counseling with a registered nurse. A cardiologist will review results with certain risk factors.
Click here for more information or to sign up today.
- Lifebridge Health Employees Will "go Red" To Fight Heart Disease
by Helene King You?re enjoying a sunny day, playing with your kids. Suddenly, you?re short of breath, you have back pain and you?re sick to your stomach. What?s happening? According to experts at the Heart Center at Sinai, you could be having a heart...
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By Deb Kirkland, RN, BSN, MPH Nurse Navigator, Herman & Walter Samuelson Breast Center at Northwest Hospital This year over 200,000 women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and of those 11,000 will be under the age of 40. This...
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A women's heart & lifestyle screening will be held at Northwest Hospital on Thursday, May 28 with appointments starting at 3:00 p.m. Please call 410-601-WELL to pre-register. A 6-hour fasting is recommended for this test, which allows you to eat...
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Baltimore residents are used to seeing downtown buildings and monuments illuminated in purple come NFL playoff time in support of the hometown Ravens. But what's with the red light enveloping City Hall and the Washington Monument all this month? In...
- Know Your Numbers To Watch Heart Health
It pays to know your numbers. To take a free online heart risk assessment and enter a drawing to receive one of 500 free Omron pedometers*, visit KnowYourNumbersBaltimore.com. *While supplies last. Last year, Nadine Williams-Holmes began having chest...