The quiet killer Women are diagnosed with heart disease later than men and...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  May 5, 1997 ;   NEIL D. ROSENBERG;   787 words ...A look at heart disease in women is not a pretty picture. Consider...disparities in assessment of women with heart disease." Such sobering facts were behind a recent conference on "Women and Heart Disease" the fourth in eight years sponsored...

Killer heart disease stalking women, too

Chicago Sun-Times;  October 17, 1991 ;   Howard Wolinsky;   365 words ......Antonia Novello told the Women and Heart Disease Conference sponsored by the...sponsored its first meeting on women and heart disease 27 years ago, she noted...held its first conference on heart disease in women in 1989. Epidemiologist Rose...

WomenHeart and the Society for Women's Health Research Unveil the 10 Q...

PR Newswire;  February 14, 2006 ;     787 words ......the National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease and the Society for Women...diagnosis and treatment of heart disease in women. Answering these questions...effective treatment for women with heart disease, said Nancy Loving, co-founder...

Heart disease symptoms are often ignored in women.(Knight Ridder...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  June 29, 2001 ;   Morris, Christine;   787 words ......say breast cancer. ``Women don't understand that heart disease is the No. 1 killer...Bush's Task Force on Women and Heart Disease, scheduled to make...age 60 will die from heart disease, Haldeman said. But women do not fear it nearly...

Heart disease said to be number one killer of women

New York Amsterdam News;  May 24, 1997 ;     430 words ......little about the effect of heart disease on women because until the late 1980s...that little is known about women and heart disease so doctors and nurses are...and heart disease. About heart disease in women, the Physicians Desk Reference...

AHA guidelines give women new advice on how to avoid heart disease

Drug Topics;  June 1, 2007 ;   Sipkoff, Martin;   787 words ......misleading paradox about women and heart disease: Although women tend to be at low short-te...providers and patients view women and heart disease in a different light...They found that many women with heart disease fail to receive a proper...

Women & Heart Disease

Minnesota Monthly;  August 1, 2004 ;   Anonymous;   427 words ......the differences between heart disease in women and men, and how heart...troubling reasons why heart disease is affecting women in such large numbers...eight percent of 1,000 women considered heart disease their greatest risk. Even...

The risk is real Patients -- and many doctors -- still don't know how...

Dayton Daily News;  February 8, 2005 ;   Kevin Lamb klamb@DaytonDailyNews.com;   703 words ......cardiologists realizing heart disease kills more women than men. Prevention undercut...case, doctors often miss heart disease in a women because they're the wrong...heightened awareness (of heart disease for women) and you're presented with...

For women only: appropriate treatment for heart disease.("From the Heart:...

Townsend Letter: The Examiner of Alternative Medicine;  July 1, 2007 ;   Alleger, Irene;   727 words ......National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease Published by Da Capo Press...advocates changes in how women understand heart disease, most of the book reads...important information for women with heart disease, such as the rise in incidence...

Thousands of `dangerously unaware' women at risk from heart disease.(News)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  February 12, 2003 ;     410 words ......And levels of coronary heart disease (CHD) in women in Wales are amongst the...Denmark. The need to address heart disease in women has been made all the more...Napier added, ``Fighting heart disease in women is a national concern, since...

Heart disease in women: the silent, and often ignored, killer Physician...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  April 15, 1998 ;   NEIL D. ROSENBERG;   594 words ......the disparity of care women are given in heart disease, likely would make better...becoming more sensitive to heart disease in women and how to properly diagnose...she said. Only 4% of women perceive heart disease as a probable cause of...

Heart disease a silent epidemic among women.(Originated from Knight-Ridder...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  February 21, 1996 ;   Cain, Angela;   787 words ......killer of women. In fact, more women die of heart disease than all forms of cancer...called the silent epidemic in women. Heart disease is a risk for women _ just...the lack of awareness of heart disease in women could be blamed on the media...

Ticking Time Bomb? Women underestimate the threat of heart disease, new...

The New York Jewish Week;  September 19, 1997 ;   Anonymous;   787 words ......even more concern is that women with heart disease are twice as likely as men...sponsor a major conference on women's heart disease next fall aimed at teaching...medical care when it comes to heart disease. "Women's heart problems are addressed...

IMPROVE RESEARCH ON WOMEN'S HEART DISEASE.(OPINION)(GUEST COLUMN)(Column)

Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  March 2, 2006 ;     465 words ...Byline: BARBARA A. HANKWITZ Women's heart disease is often misdiagnosed and...unanswered questions about women and heart disease. Recently, WomenHeart: the National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease and the Society for Women...

Heart disease is different _ and more deadly _ for women.(Knight Ridder...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  March 29, 2002 ;   Uhlenhuth, Karen;   787 words ......threat. Only 8 percent knew heart disease kills more women _ about 2 times as many as all cancers combined. Heart disease in women is widely misunderstood...diagnosis and treatment of heart disease in women. Loving had a heart attack...