by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters
Angioplasty poster from the Parsemus Foundation.
Here’s more on the growing controversy surrounding unnecessary coronary stent procedures: Continue reading “Why feel helpless about your coronary artery disease?”
Heart attack: “Brushing it off as if it were nothing!”
.
Just in time for Heart Month! Watch this compelling little 7-minute film featuring Stanford University heart patients and staff, and then forward the link on to every woman you care about.
FEBRUARY IS HEART MONTH!
Starting now, commit to adding at least one heart-healthy new lifestyle change each day.
.
.
Why don’t patients listen to doctors’ heart-healthy advice?
by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters
Imagine that your daughter is preparing for a junior ski race. It’s five minutes before the start of the race. You want to give her some meaningful advice. Which one of these two messages are you going to use?
1. “Honey, remember to do XYZ – it will help you avoid losing!”
2. “Honey, remember to do XYZ – it will make you faster and you will have more fun!”
Austrian physician Dr. Franz Wiesbauer, writing to his fellow doctors in a Medcrunch article called Why Your Health Message Does Not Work, has asked this question many times in an informal little experiment. His results? Continue reading “Why don’t patients listen to doctors’ heart-healthy advice?”
Women live longer – but not healthier – lives than men
Audiences for my women’s heart health presentations are mostly female, but sometimes women will bring along their hubbies, too. One such man came up to speak to me following one of my recent public talks. He told me in quite a stern tone that he thought all this focus on women and heart disease was “far too negative!” What I should concentrate on instead, he advised me, was the more positive fact that women live longer than men do.
Setting aside his patronizing petulance at learning the actual grim reality about women’s heart health, it turns out that he’s quite correct. But although women do generally live longer, our waning years may be far less healthy than men experience in their old age. Continue reading “Women live longer – but not healthier – lives than men”
Heart Sisters 