CDC REPORT PROVIDES FIRST STATE-SPECIFIC DATA ON PERSONS LIVING WITH HEART...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 15, 2007 ;     672 words ......reporting the lowest level of heart disease prevalence were: Nebraska, Wisconsin...ethnic differences in heart disease prevalence. Men had a significantly...Natives had the highest heart disease prevalence (11.2 percent) and Asians...

CDC Report Provides First State-Specific Data on Persons Living With Heart...

U.S. Newswire;  February 15, 2007 ;     691 words ......reporting the lowest level of heart disease prevalence were: Nebraska, Wisconsin...ethnic differences in heart disease prevalence. Men had a significantly...Natives had the highest heart disease prevalence (11.2 percent) and Asians...

WINNING THE WAR ON HEART DISEASE.(News)

Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England);  December 20, 2003 ;     473 words ...Byline: HELEN CLARKE DEATH rates from heart disease in one of Britain's worst blacks pots...1996,Knowsley had one of the highest heart disease mortality rates in the country -with...statistics show that deaths through heart disease have plummeted by more than 40% over...

INDUSTRY CANADA: Living with heart disease -- 1996/97.

M2 Presswire;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......April 1999-INDUSTRY CANADA: Living with heart disease -- 1996/97 (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...reported that they had been diagnosed with heart disease. Although women accounted for less...with men who had been diagnosed with heart disease, women were more likely to have at...

Heart disease: what can you do?(preventing heart disease)

The Network News;  March 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......else can women do to prevent heart disease? The Network gets this question...a woman's risk of developing heart disease. We've written this article...what is currently known about heart disease, and to encourage women to take...

Studies show heart disease symptoms different for women

University Wire;  February 24, 2006 ;     541 words ......Northern Star) (U-WIRE) DEKALB, Ill. -- Heart disease is the leading cause of death for American...especially those over age 65. In fact, heart disease is four to six times more likely to...University, recognized this issue. "Heart disease is also the leading cause of death...

Oklahoma ranks 5th in heart disease: A poll finds 7.5 percent had been...

Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK);  February 16, 2007 ;     368 words ......heart attack, angina or coronary heart disease. The states with a higher prevalence of heart disease were West Virginia, Kentucky, Louisiana and Tennessee. The lowest rates of heart disease were reported in Colorado, the District...smoking, which are risk factors for ...

HEART DISEASE INCREASINGLY DEADLY THREAT TO WOMEN

Sun Publications (IL);  December 31, 1997 ;     549 words ...Heart disease is the No. 1 cause of death for American women, yet many women...ratio soars to one in three at age 65 and beyond. Q: What causes heart disease? A: Heart disease is caused by a reduction in the amount of blood flowing to the...

HEALTHY LIFESTYLE, ESTROGEN CAN LOWER RISK OF HEART DISEASE

Sun Publications (IL);  April 14, 1999 ;     534 words ...Heart disease is the number one cause of death for American women, yet many...ratio soars to one in three at age 65 and beyond. Q: What causes heart disease? A: Heart disease is caused by a reduction in the amount of blood flowing to the...

KNOWLEDGE OF HEART DISEASE IMPORTANT FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH

Sun Publications (IL);  March 4, 1998 ;     596 words ...Q: How serious is heart disease among women? A: Heart disease is the most common cause of death in American women...a stroke. Even though it occurs more frequently, heart disease does not seem to attract the same kind of attention...

CDC: HEART DISEASE HIGHEST IN W.VA., KY.

Evansville Courier & Press;  February 16, 2007 ;     222 words ......have the highest proportion of people with heart disease in the nation, U.S. health officials said Thursday...findings, from the first study ever to look at heart disease prevalence state by state, showed that states in the Southeast and Southwest were heart disease leaders. ...

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

Dayton Daily News;  February 8, 2005 ;     700+ words ......considered Carol Howard might have heart disease until she suddenly passed out 12 years...women needn't concern themselves about heart disease. Her doctors seemed to agree. Little...then about popular misconceptions that heart disease is for men, the American Heart Association...

Studies show heart disease development in young women

University Wire;  March 15, 2005 ;     671 words ......Times) (U-WIRE) BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women over the...the American Heart Association, but heart disease begins to develop at a young age and...20 percent of women said they view heart disease as their greatest personal health problem...

A Deadly Myth // Women Not Free of Risk From Heart Disease

Chicago Sun-Times;  March 13, 1994 ;     700+ words ......enduring myth that it strikes only men, heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women in the...people - hold on to the delusion that heart disease is reserved for men," writes Edward...Diethrich, M.D., in his new book, Women and Heart Disease. "All the while, a silent epidemic...

By the time you read this page, a Scot will have died of heart disease;...

Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  November 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ......hour a Scot is killed by coronary heart disease, giving the nation the unenviable...every family has been affected by heart disease, yet many still refuse to change their habits. Heart disease and strokes are the main cause of...