Tag: American Heart Association National Survey

Cardiac care: more good news for young, healthy white men

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by Carolyn Thomas    ♥   @HeartSisters  

Being misdiagnosed with acid reflux and sent home from Emergency in mid-heart attack was when I learned that certain heart patients will be appropriately cared for, while other patients will not. I’ve been writing and speaking about what polite academics call under-served heart patient populations ever since since my own “widow maker” heart attack in 2008. And now a new international Commission has formed to “address the persistent disparities in cardiovascular health.” 

What the term “persistent disparities” specifically means is that the quality of care you’ll receive during your cardiac event varies depending on your age, your skin colour, your mental health and whether you’re a man or a woman.  
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The weirdest stuff I’ve learned about women’s heart disease

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by Carolyn Thomas   ♥   @HeartSisters

You know it’s Heart Month when scary facts about the dangers of heart disease start flooding our screens. But that kind of Heart Month messaging is so pre-COVID – and before we learned the shocking results of the American Heart Association’s national survey.  This survey found that women’s awareness of heart disease has actually declined over the past decade – NOT improved at all! despite all the inspiring Red Dress-awareness-raising-Go-Red-for-Women campaign efforts out there.  

So instead of repeating more scary statistics as if I hadn’t read that survey’s results,  I’m once again simply offering some weird stuff I’ve learned over the years about women and heart disease:    .         .     Continue reading “The weirdest stuff I’ve learned about women’s heart disease” →