What Women Need to Know About Heart Disease
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Do you know your risk for cardiac disease? Take a closer look at guidelines, tools, and techniques that can assess your own risk and learn the latest on preventing cardiovascular disease. This community lecture at Summit Medical Group offers information regarding cardiac screenings such as cholesterol testing, calcium scoring, stress testing and echocardiograms . Susan L. Simandl, MD, FACC http://www.summitmedicalgroup.com/doctor/ssimandl/ Suzanne Shugg, BSN, MSN, RN, ACNP, DNP http://www.summitmedicalgroup.com/doctor/sshugg/
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What Women Need to Know About Heart Disease
- 1. Women’s Cardiac Health and Wellness Center at the Summit Medical Group Susan L. Simandl, MD, FACC Suzanne Shugg, DNP, CLS
- 3. When you hear “heart attack” what do you think of?
- 4. “ Just a Little Heart Attack”
- 7. What is Cardiovascular Disease? Cardiovascular disease (or CVD) includes heart and blood vessel diseases — diseases that affect the circulatory system.
- 9. Coronary artery disease: The most common form of heart disease in the US
- 10. Coronary angiogram with atherosclerosis Severe narrowing of an artery
- 15. What should my blood pressure be?
- 16. Why is treating high blood pressure so important?
- 18. Relative Risk of Coronary Events for Smokers Compared to Non-Smokers Quitting can be tough, but there is help!
- 19. Risk Reduction for CHD Associated with Exercise in Women Physical activity can reduce your risk of heart disease. Check with your doctor prior to starting an exercise program.
- 20. What is body mass index or BMI? An estimate of body fat based on height and weight
- 21. Body Weight and CHD Mortality Among Women l Normal
- 22. What Do I need to know about Cholesterol?
- 29. Overview of Nutritional Supplements Fiber Reduce LDL cholesterol by 10-18% Omega 3 Reduce Triglycerides by 50% Plant Sterols/Stanols Reduce LDL cholesterol by 10%
Notas do Editor
- We’re here today to talk about a very important issue — women and heart disease. To be more medically precise, we should say “women and cardiovascular disease.” Cardiovascular diseases are heart and blood vessel diseases — in other words, diseases that affect the circulatory system.