Heart disease is the leading killer of women, in part because women’s symptoms vary from the classic symptoms, primarily found in men. Dedicated to educating women about prevention and treating women with heart disease, the Women’s Heart Center of Pacific Heart Institute will present a women’s heart disease symposium Feb. 28 in Santa Monica.
More than 200 people are expected to attend this second annual symposium, sponsored by the pharmaceutical and biotech industries as well as the Saint John’s Foundation of Providence Saint John’s Health Center. Highlights of this year’s event will include a focus on pregnancy and an exercise segment which will be punctuated by an exercise program created by cardiologists utilizing FitBit.
Nationally recognized cardiologists also will discuss the latest cardiac devices including home monitoring devices, stroke prevention and irregular heartbeats in women. The speakers will include Pacific Heart Institute experts as well as national leaders in the field of women’s heart disease.
Heart specialists will discuss a range of women’s heart health issues including pregnancy and heart disease, risks associated with hormone replacement therapy, atrial fibrillation and other irregular heart rhythms, the latest cardiac devices including home monitoring devices, cholesterol and blood pressure guidelines and treatments, heart disease and stroke preventions and exercise, and how over-the-counter medications can help or harm your cardiovascular health.
The event will be held at Casa del Mar Hotel, 1910 Ocean Way, on Saturday, Feb. 28 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
To attend, email RSVP@pacificheart.com or visit www.pacificheart.com for more information.
Re: “Heart disease is the leading killer of women, in part because women’s symptoms vary from the classic symptoms, primarily found in men.”
But the following is true also:
Heart disease is the leading killer of men, in part because men’s symptoms vary from the classic symptoms, primarily found in women.
Here is the fact:
As a group, men incur heart disease about ten years sooner than women and die of it at a much higher rate at every age.
To campaign only against women’s heart disease is not just cruel sexism but also racism, given that the group at the highest risk of all is black men.
Don’t think the campaigns are sexist? Imagine this reversal: As a group women incur heart disease about ten years sooner than men and die of it at a much higher rate at every age — but all campaigns against heart disease focus exclusively on men’s heart disease.
What would women’s advocates call such campaigns? Sexist. How soon would they erupt in protest? Yesterday.
Look at the campaigns only against women’s heart disease this way: Since women as a group outlive men, they are helping the longer-living sex live longer. Suppose there were economic campaigns to help only men earn more money — a less egregious sexism. How long would women’s advocates tolerate those campaigns? Less than a second.
The sexism against men is repeated and perpetuated each time someone who is connected to campaigns against women’s heart disease reads this comment and ignores it, saying, “Hey, no one else is complaining.” That’s the exact kind of sexism that women’s advocates condemn in men.
Think about the men in your family — your dad, your brother, your nephews, your son….
“Women’s advocates wrong about why more women die of heart disease than men” http://malemattersusa.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/womens-advocates-wrong-about-why-more-women-die-of-heart-disease-than-men/