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Go Red for Women!
When addressing headaches and Migraine disease, it’s critical to also address other issues that can affect headaches and Migraine disease as well as those that impact our overall health. Especially given the fact that 18% of women have Migraine disease (6 - 7% of men), women’s health initiatives are of great interest. Heart disease and stroke, which is also an area of focus for the American Heart Association, can both significantly impact Migraine treatment.
For example, Migraine abortive medications are quite often not recommended for use by patients with a history of or high risk factors for heart disease and / or stroke. Thus, it becomes even more important to learn about our hearts and how to take the best possible care of ourselves.
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Women, Hormones,
and Heart Disease
Estrogen provides protective benefits that may help women delay heart disease.
It may appear as though women don’t get heart disease because they tend to develop it later in life than men, largely due to the protective effects of natural estrogen. As long as women are having regular menstrual cycles, they enjoy a significant, although not absolute, level of protection. Naturally produced estrogen is linked with lower levels of LDL (“bad”) cholesterol and triglycerides and higher HDL (“good”) cholesterol. When a woman’s estrogen production plummets in her late forties to early fifties, she begins to lose her hormonal advantage.
For decades, experts advised women to take hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to protect their hearts as well as to relieve menopausal symptoms and strengthen their bones. Estrogen’s heartprotective properties looked so promising that nearly half of all postmenopausal female physicians took HRT, a rate higher than that of the general public, according to a 1997 study.
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Chest Pains
How do you know when chest pain signals a heart attack? That’s the lifeand-death question medical professionals have been attempting to answer for years. Unfortunately, there is still no definite way for individuals to tell on their own whether that stabbing chest pain is caused by a heart attack, indigestion, anxiety, or any number of other health conditions. Recent statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that the leading cause for visits to hospital emergency rooms is chest pain. This is not surprising. One of the first thoughts a person has when a sudden and unfamiliar pain springs up in their chest is “heart attack.”
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Heart Disease: The
#1
Killer of Women in America
Heart disease is the #1 killer of women in America.
What can we do about this? The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) is doing something about it and it is called “The Heart Truth” campaign. NHLBI developed the “Health Truth” campaign in 2001 in an effort to make women more aware of the dangers of heart disease. The campaign’s focus is to give women a wake up call about their risk of heart disease. “The campaign message is paired with an arresting visual, the red dress” states the NHLBI. Their idea being that “heart disease does not care what you are wearing, it is the #1 killer of American women.” The red dress has become a national symbol for women and heart disease. The idea being when you see a red dress, it will remind you of the need to protect your heart health. February is designated nationally as Heart Health month each year.
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