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To: fanfan; backhoe

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/heart-disease/hb00040

SNIPPET: “Although heart disease is often thought of as a problem for men, more women than men die of heart disease each year. Women are six times as likely to die of heart disease as of breast cancer. Heart disease kills more women over 65 than do all cancers combined.”

SNIPPET: “One challenge for women is that their heart disease symptoms can be different from symptoms in men.” F

SNIPPET: “These signs and symptoms are more subtle than the obvious crushing chest pain often associated with heart attacks.”


204 posted on 06/18/2010 2:27:44 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Cindy

I had no idea.

Thanks Cindy.


205 posted on 06/18/2010 3:51:12 PM PDT by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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To: Cindy
Women are six times as likely to die of heart disease as of breast cancer.

I've known that for a while...funny how the fatality rate from heart disease in women is buried by the breast cancer hysteria...

207 posted on 06/18/2010 3:56:04 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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