Blog # 10

The thing I think is most interesting about heart disease in women is that women are rarely studied like men are. Most of the studies that are done are focused on men. Cardiovascular disease is responsible for 40% of all deaths in women (Texas Heart Institute, 2009). The prognosis for women is sometimes worse because women don’t find out about their disease in time. Women don’t have the same symptoms as men and sometimes don’t know that they are having an issue. We as health educators need to turn the focus on all groups equally. Women and men need to be looked at separately since the disease acts different in women and men and women need to be more educated on the symptoms. Heart attacks don’t always look like they do in the movies or on TV and until that fact is taught to women we will have more and more women facing heart problems that they are unaware of until it is too late.


References:

Texas Heart Institute (2009) Women and Heart Disease Retrieved April 11, 2009 from

http://www.texasheartinstitute.org/HIC/Topics/HSmart/women.cfm