Women urged to love their heart also
May 1st, 2011 - 6:02 pm ICT by ANISydney, May 1 (ANI): Women have been urged to think of their hearts also, with a new research showing that more women die from heart attacks than men in Australia, and yet many more who are unaware they are at risk.
The study conducted by the Heart Foundation found a high level of ignorance among women when it came to heart health, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
More than 70 percent of the 1763 women surveyed were unaware that heart disease is the leading killer of Australian women.
‘There’s just this myth around, that has been around for a long time, that heart disease is an old man’s disease and it doesn’t affect women to same degree,” said Tony Thirlwell, the foundation’s NSW chief executive.
That’s just not true,’ he insisted.
Smoking, being overweight or obese, lack of exercise and poor diet are contributing to the number of women with heart disease, which claims four times more lives than breast cancer each year.
Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show that women overtook men in deaths from heart attack for the first time in 2008, with 5583 deaths compared with 5537 in men.
Thirlwell said the findings were of concern given that women tended to pay more attention to their health than men. (ANI)
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