Suzanne Haynes, Ph.D., Senior Science Advisor, Office on Women’s Health, lays stress on the fact that women devote their entire caution and attention towards their husbands’ health and says, “There’s a disassociation with being at high risk … Only 50 percent of women call 9-1-1 for themselves.”
As a woman, I’d like to admit that a good deal of the time I know exactly what somebody else should do and insist they do it. I think it’s called “do what I say, not what I do.” To be fair, we believed for years that only men had heart attacks and women were safe.”
Hayne’s has been blogging on Heart Health and she discussed the signs of women’s heart attack and featured “Make the Call, Don’t Miss A Beat”. Hayne’s OWH is partnering with Million Hearts, the initiative to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes over the next five years.
This year, OWH will award funds to community-based Women’s Health organizations in the drive toward the goal.
Recently, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, published a statistics by the American Heart Association in the Jan. 25 issue of Circulation, which stated the fact that African American women are about 40 percent more likely to die of cardiovascular disease than white women because of risk factors like high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity.