Monday, October 20, 2008

Why is there a heart disease awareness month for women but not for men

Why is there a heart disease awareness month for women but not for men?
Does this mean that everyone is just focused on womens health and no one is focused on men?? What if a man dies from heart disease?? Does anyone even care?? Is there any research being done on mens health or does everyone ignore mens health and laugh if they get heart disease??
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Of course people care that men get heart disease too. The reason there's a month focused on women's heart disease is because it's the number one killer of women.
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Women are neglected if and when they succumb to heart attack. They are not fetched to the hospital for treatment at the proper time. Women and older patients experience atypical symptoms more frequently than their male and younger counterparts. Women also have more symptoms compared to men (2.6 on average vs 1.8 symptoms in men). The most common symptoms of MI in women include dyspnea, weakness, and fatigue. Fatigue, sleep disturbances, and dyspnea have been reported as frequently occurring symptoms which may manifest as long as one month before the actual clinically manifested ischemic event. In women, chest pain may be less predictive of coronary ischemia than in men. World Heart Day is celebrated by World Heart Federation on September 27th every year. Begun in 1999 with the vision that all World Heart Federation members could collectively help to curb the global pandemic of cardiovascular disease, which claims some 17.5 million lives world-wide annually, World Heart Day is now celebrated by members and non-members alike in more than 100 countries around the world.
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Women have higher rates of this disease and their "awareness" programs are more profitable if they target women, however, a bigger issue is the fact that these "awareness" campaigns are money making scams to fund drug company research. They make lots of money for drug company research, but they fail to spread "awareness of the cause of heart disease." Almost every case of heart disease can be prevented and even reversed through dramatic changes to diet and lifestyle. Dr. Dean Ornish has shown that heart disease can be reversed through a low-fat vegetarian diet. Others, like Dr. Neal Barnard, have shown that eliminating ALL meat, ALL dairy, and ALL eggs can prevent heart disease in nearly every person. (Some heart disease is due to genetic defects, but those are rare.) These 'foods' are not necessary for a healthy diet that is based completely on plants. These "awareness" campaigns are nonsensical and money making scams. Awareness should involve major lifestyle changes and less need for drugs and worthless diet programs

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