Chicago (WLS) – February is the American Heart month – a time to raise awareness about the first cause of death in the United States from both men and women: heart disease.
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Dr. Annabel Voldman, a professor of medicine at Rush College, joined ABC7 to talk about the health of women's heart.
February is the American heart. It is time to raise awareness about the first cause of death in the United States
Among women, cardiovascular disease causes deaths in three of each year, each year, according to the American Heart Association. The disease kills women more than all forms of cancer combined. However, only 44 % of women realize.
Dr. Voldman said: “Risk factors for heart disease are rampant in the United States. High blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and obesity, and this can contribute to heart disease.”
According to the American Heart Association, approximately 45 % of women at the age of twenty or older live with a form of cardiovascular disease.
Dr. Voldman said that this is the result of not only obesity and high cholesterol in the blood, but also the foods we eat.
She added that any animal product can raise cholesterol in cholesterol.
Dr. Voldman recommends that animal products be canceled as possible. She said the exercise is important to lower blood pressure and stress.
Bremana Bagley is the current Miss Illinoi, and is also a survivor of moral heart defect.
Among women, cardiovascular disease causes deaths 1 in 3, every year, according to the American Heart Association.
Bagley was diagnosed with nervous heart fainting, which is something that she describes that her brain does not always connect to hearing her “reminding him of pumping blood.”
Miss Illinoi said that her mother had suffered three strikes and had to re -learn how to walk and speak.
“As women, I think we have an internal campaign to not say that we do not feel fine. The world inspires the belief of women and know that we know our bodies better.”
She explained that Rush provides affordable heart tests for women to determine whether they are at risk of cardiovascular disease.
“There is something called the degree of coronary artery that has already been studied and validated as a great tool for us to determine who is at risk of heart attacks and strokes,” the doctor explained.
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