One of the regular visitors to this here blog works at a hospital in southern New Hampshire. I just visited their website and found a link to the American Heart Association: What does the #1 killer of women look like?
I figured it had something to do with the Lifetime network, which is seemingly required to present the murder of at least one woman in each show they broadcast, but no, it's an informative page about the symptoms of heart disease. It's an great website - we've recognized lots of the symptoms from my wife's recent experiences.
Why not visit the page now to assess your risk of heart disease?
Posted by billw at August 9, 2003 08:46 PMIt always surprises my patients that breast cancer is NOT the #1 killer of women. It is usually good for a pretty long conversation about risk factors etc.
One thing that many women (and their docs too, even) don't realize is that there is a link between certain reproductive health issues and vascular disease. For example, women who have a hypercoagulability disorder will often have multiple miscarriages, preterm birth, placental abruptions, pregnancy diabetes and pregnancy hypertension. These same women will in their 40s have mini-strokes, angina, and heart attacks. Not a pretty picture, but one that can be picked up on an preventiv measures begun, IF the doc is sensitive to the connection. A big problem is that there are too many specialists out there who can't see the forest for the trees.
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct, but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
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