Women's Heart Health

Dec 2019

Evening Meals Could Harm the Female Heart, Study Shows

MONDAY, Nov. 11, 2019 -- Late dinners and heavy evening snacking do no favors for women's hearts, a new study suggests.

Researchers at New York City's Columbia University found that those who ate more of their daily calories in the evening had a higher risk of heart disease.

Dec 2019

AHA News: She Thought Her Dizziness, Exhaustion Came From Being A Mom

Dec 2019

AHA News: She Thought Her Dizziness, Exhaustion Came From Being A Mom

TUESDAY, Oct. 22, 2019 (American Heart Association News) -- Their young sons in bed, Lucy Henglefelt and her husband, Adam, were cleaning their Sioux Falls, South Dakota, home to put it on the market. A real estate agent was coming the next day to take pictures.

But Lucy reached a stopping point. She occasionally got dizzy and often was near exhaustion, and now she needed to lay down.

Nov 2019

Irregular Periods, Shorter Life Span?

Nov 2019

Women's Heart Health

Irregular Periods, Shorter Life Span?

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 16, 2019 -- Women whose menstrual cycles persistently vary from the 28-day norm may have an increased risk of earlier death, new research suggests.

The study found that women who had irregular periods or extra-long menstrual cycles had as much as a one-third higher risk of death during the two-decade study compared to women who usually had a normal menstrual cycle.

Nov 2019

AHA News: These Diets Helped Women With Diabetes Cut Heart Attack, Stroke Risk

THURSDAY, Sept. 19, 2019 (American Heart Association News) -- Eating patterns similar to the Mediterranean diet and the blood pressure-lowering DASH may help older women with Type 2 diabetes ward off heart attacks, strokes and related problems, new research suggests.

Diabetes afflicts one-quarter of Americans 65 and older. An estimated 68% of these patients will die of heart disease, and 16% will die of stroke.