“Way more women die from heart disease than from breast cancer”, said HPDP Manager with the U.S. Government VA Medical Center, Bonnie Odermann.
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“I go red because my dad passed away”.
The American Heart Association says 90 percent of women have one risk factor for heart disease or stroke and that every 79 seconds a woman in the USA dies from one or the other. At this event groups of women across West Michigan will get together to celebrate the energy, passion and power women have to band together and wipe out heart disease.
Heart disease is the number killer of women as well as men. Women’s symptoms are much more subtle. While those certainly can be present during a woman’s heart attack, the symptoms tend to be subtler, including indigestion, flu-like symptoms, anxiety, sleep disturbance, extreme fatigue and back, neck or jaw pain.
Heart disease kills one woman every 80 seconds. Which is downright scary.
Is there a particular exercise regimen or program you’d recommend? The Go Red For Women movement works to make sure women know they are at risk so they can take action to protect their health. Encourage your friends and family to do likewise.
Going through surgeries, medications, and many hospital visits, Faith fought for her life.
“A lot of 30- and 40-year-olds have high blood pressure and they don’t even know it”, said Krueger.
Own Your Lifestyle: Stop smoking, lose weight, be physically active and eat healthy.
Donate: Show your support with a donation of time or money.
The first day of February kicks off the beginning of American Heart Month.
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And it’s costing us millions – all of us, whether we have health issues or not. Each woman must take control of her own cardiac health in order to change the statistics for heart disease in women in the future.
