Healthy Considerations

Every year more women die from heart attacks and strokes than men. This is the primary reason the American Heart Association is updating it’s heart disease prevention guidelines in women. The 2007 Guidelines for Preventing Cardiovascular Disease in Women – published in a special womens health issue of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association – also include new directions for using aspirin, hormone therapy and vitamin and mineral supplements in heart disease and stroke prevention in women. “The updated guidelines emphasize the lifetime risk of women, not just the more short-term focus of the 2004 guidelines,” said Lori Mosca, M.D., Ph.D., director of preventive cardiology at New York–Presbyterian Hospital and chair of the American Heart Association expert panel that wrote the guidelines. “We took a long-term view of heart disease prevention … Read entire article »