Comments on: Heart disease kills more women than all cancer combined

By: Weight loss after 50: You gotta have heart | After the kids leave

Weight loss after 50: You gotta have heart | After the kids leave — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 05:12:11 +0000

[...] you be surprised to learn that heart disease kills more women than all the cancers put together? Yes, women. Especially women who’ve entered—or already passed [...]

By: janegassner

janegassner — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:52:00 +0000

Yes, ugh to exercise, Linda. I so wish I was one of those people who just LOVED LOVED LOVED it.

By: janegassner

janegassner — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:50:00 +0000

I have a friend who had a heart attack in her forties. She too was thin and exercised diligently. Fortunately, she got to the hospital in time.

By: janegassner

janegassner — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:49:00 +0000

I used to think that gender made a huge difference in how the doc treated me, but now I’m not so sure. I’ve had some male docs who took all the time in the world and listened to me; I’ve had some female docs who have not.

By: janegassner

janegassner — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:48:00 +0000

Thanks go to our federal government as well for sponsoring all the research and the information program that led to this post.

By: janegassner

janegassner — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:46:00 +0000

Morgana,
I agree with you about the heart-mind connection. How we live emotionally is an equal partner in our physical well-being as how we live physically.

By: janegassner

janegassner — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:45:00 +0000

This story is so scary, Linda. It’s almost like ‘no matter what you do…’ which isn’t a great attitude, I know. I hope you mil is okay now.

By: Linda D'Ae-Smith

Linda D'Ae-Smith — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:28:00 +0000

Sorry about the $3K (we have Kaiser, too – husband’s employer), but better to be cautious. My (very healthy, exercises five days a week, looks more like 65 than 81) mother-in-law had a heart attack with no “classic” symptoms -just a little nausea and she felt feverish. Took more than a week to correctly diagnose, but the short story is that she had a 90 percent blockage in one artery and a 60 percent blockage in another.