Women’s Heart Disease and Heart Attack: National Wear Red Day Friday February 5

February 3rd, 2010 admin

Wear red for women's heart disease awareness! Get your red on when you get dressed Friday morning and help women everywhere become better aware of heart disease. Women’s Misconception of Heart Disease Many people believe that heart disease a men’s medical issue, but they couldn’t be more wrong. Heart disease is the #1 killer of women and the reasons for this are simply due to unawareness. Women have different symptoms for a heart attack than men do. Not only that, many women will attribute symptoms of a heart attack to some other malady. This means, that women go untreated for a heart attack, which puts them at a risk for subsequent ones that are much more powerful risking their life. Helping Women Survive Heart Disease The best thing you can do to …


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