[untrained skeptic]

There seems to be a lot of misplaced anger in this article.

Because it if primarily men who suffer from heart disease, the majority of the funding for heard disease research is already going to help men.

It's not the AHA's fault that more men die from heart disease than women any more than it is the fault of groups fighting breast cancer that more women die from breast cancer than men.

The Go Red for Women program is probably the result of Women who are active in supporting Heart Disease awareness feeling like women get left out because most of the generalized programs end up concentrating on men.

The American Heart Association doesn't cause heart disease.

They aren't at fault when men die from heard disease before women.

It doesn't matter how much good some organization does, there will always be those out there that blame them simply because they aren't able to solve every problem.

[Kirkwood]

I guess she wants the AMA to have a wear blue for men day.

[doc30]

Finally, a common sense posting. THe other issue is that the symptoms of heart attacks are different between men and women, with most education on warning signs being for men. So it is important that women get educated, and still make sure men stay educated. Eat right and excercise helps.

[Caramelgal]

There seems to be a lot of misplaced anger in this article….Because it if primarily men who suffer from heart disease, the majority of the funding for heard disease research is already going to help men.

The Go Red for Women program is probably the result of Women who are active in supporting Heart Disease awareness feeling like women get left out because most of the generalized programs end up concentrating on men.

I think you are right. There is a perception that it is mostly men who suffer and die from heart disease but in truth, more women die from heart disease than do from breast cancer, yet most heart disease programs and heart disease drugs and cholesterol lowering drugs are targeted toward men and a very large amount of money is being spent on breast cancer (a very worthy cause and not to be ignored) but to ignore women in heart disease research who are equally at risk, is to ignore almost half of the entire population.

I had a woman friend in her late 30’s who was told, despite her symptoms and without any diagnostic tests, was told she not having heart problems. She soon after had a near fatal heart attack. If her doctor’s had not ignored her clinical symptoms in time and dismissed her based on the current research and risk factors primarily focused on men and their risk factors, she may have not suffered a near fatal and very debilitating heart attack. If her husband and presented with the very same risk factors and symptoms had gone to his doctor, he would have been given a stress test and other diagnostic tests and his symptoms would not have been passed off as having PMS and “emotional problems”.

The Go Red for Women program is only meant to heighten awareness among women that they are also at risk and not immune from heart disease.

And what about men who keel over from heart disease in their 40s and 50s? What happens to their wives and children?

And what happens to husbands and their children and grand children when a woman in her 40’s or 50’s; a wife and mother and grandmother, dies an early and possibly preventable death due to heart disease. Is her death any less felt by her husband and family?