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Heart disease and the forty-something woman

Submitted by fiftyshift on Fri, 01/15/2010 - 19:46.

Over at politico.com, my former student Erika Lovley has a real interesting (and scary) piece about the death of House Minority Leader  John Boehner’s chief of staff, Paula Nowakowski. She died at the age of 46, apparently the result of a heart attack.

That is just not supposed to happen, right? We've grown up thinking that heart disease is a men's issue. But, according to the Women's Heart Foundation, heart disease kills as many women aged 40-60 as breast cancer.

One reason is that women don't recognize--or ignore-- the warning signs, which are different from those in men. Or they report them--or don't report them--to their doctors.

Also, the risk factors go up as we age.

So it's worth it to read up on heart disease and how it affects women.

Here's what Jane Brody has to say about healthy aging without supplements

                                                                       --BJ Roche                                         

 

 

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