Heart Sisters
All about heart disease - from the unique prespective of a Mayo Clinic-trained heart attack survivor. Heart disease is the #1 killer of women in North America - yet most women mistakenly believe that breast cancer is our greatest health threat. Women are under-diagnosed and under-treated compared to male heart patients. When it comes to heart disease, women are not just small men. This site explores emerging cardiac research, gender differences in cardiac care, and how women can become our own best heart
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Feb 05, 12 04:07AMWomen have been outliving men for centuries and perhaps longer. Even with the considerable death risk conferred by childbirth throughout history, women have out-survived men since at least the 16th ce ntury...
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Feb 01, 12 04:07AMPull out those red shoes, that red dress, or your flashy little Red Dress pin. February is Heart Month! A Heart & Stroke Foundation survey reveals that Canadians are not making time for healthy c hoices...
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Jan 28, 12 04:05AMSince surviving a heart attack, I've been trying my best to bonk women on the head with reminders to be their own best health advocates by putting themselves first on their priority lists for a chang e...
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Jan 24, 12 04:27AMFrom inventions like the cardiac pacemaker to the EKG or coronary stent, advances in the way heart patients are diagnosed and treated have changed the world of cardiology.
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Jan 20, 12 04:17AMHere's what can happen when a brave doctor "challenges the medical dismissiveness directed at women in cardiac distress" - and when his coroner's inquest rules that a 49-year old woman's death in a ho spital...
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Jan 16, 12 04:23AMLet's consider what is known as "The Barker Hypothesis", which is British physician and epidemiologist Dr. David Barker's theory that the roots of future chronic conditions like heart disease stem fro m...
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Jan 13, 12 04:04AMAs part of Ladies Home Journal's special 'Heart Month' online edition, I was interviewed by the magazine about surviving a heart attack. Check out their article called "Heartburn or Heart Attack?"
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Jan 12, 12 04:03AMTake one big life crisis - like a heart attack - and three pots of boiling water. Then put carrots, eggs and ground coffee beans into the pots and watch what happens.
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Jan 08, 12 04:41AMDr. Jerome Groopman, in his must-read book called "How Doctors Think", writes: "Physicians, like everyone else, display certain psychological characteristics when they act in the face of uncertainty. There...
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Jan 04, 12 04:00AMAccording to Dr. David Kessler's amazing little book "The End of Overeating", food manufacturers, marketers and restaurants take strategic advantage of powerful “cues” to get us to eat mor e...
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