Reality Check: Women and Heart Disease

  One evening when Jonna Elzen went to bed, she felt restless and unable to sleep. It seemed odd but she figured it was simply stress and fatigue, although the tenderness in her chest was a little alarming.  “It wasn’t pressure or heaviness,” Jonna, 49, recalled of the incident in 2005. “It was like someone had punched [...]

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Love Your Heart and Go Red For Women

The American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women movement celebrates the energy, passion and power of women to band together to wipe out heart disease and stroke. Too few women realize that cardiovascular disease is the No. 1 killer of women – killing nearly 500,000 women each year and claiming more women’s lives each year [...]

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Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease: Examination and Modification

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) accounts for approximately 30 percent of deaths annually in the United States and remains the No. 1 killer in this country. But the good news is that cardiovascular deaths are declining. In fact, in 2006 heart attack deaths dropped 30.7 percent and stroke deaths dropped 29.3 percent compared to rates in 1999 when [...]

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