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HEALTH BY THE NUMBERS HEARTBREAKING FIGURES 90 SECONDS Every 1½ minutes, RISK FACTORS 1 in 3 About 33% of American adults have high blood pressure, a major risk factor for heart disease. someone in the U.S. dies from heart disease. 20% of deaths from heart disease in the U.S. are related to cigarette smoking. 31% A diet high in saturated fat is to blame for almost a third of coronary heart disease cases. 83.6 MILLION 1/3 More than one-third of Americans are obese, a top risk factor for heart disease. Additionally, a third of Americans are overweight but not obese. The number of Americans who have one or more types of heart disease. 47 % Nearly half of Americans have at least one of these three risk factors for cardiovascular disease: high blood pressure, high cholesterol or smoking. 49% Nearly half of African-American women have some form of cardiovascular disease, as do 44% of AfricanAmerican men. Sources: American Heart Association, The Heart Foundation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Heart Federation, American College of Cardiology Why Aren't Women Wising Up to Heart Disease? 48 SU M M ER 2015 be that they don't pick up the warning signs when they have an event because they have more atypical symptoms." Rather than severe chest pain, women are more likely to experience symptoms such as shortness of breath and nausea. On the plus side, women are more aggressive about preventive care. "Whether you're a man or a woman, you have to do the same things to reduce your risk of heart disease," Smalheiser says. "That includes controlling your diet, exercising, reducing stress and working on risk factors like high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Once you have heart disease, those lifestyle changes are even more important to prevent a recurrent event." Check It Out Vascular disease causes almost as much disability and death as heart disease. Want to know if you're at risk? Beaufort Memorial's LifeFit Wellness Services offers a $60 package of three simple tests that check for blocked or narrowed arteries. To schedule a screening, call 843-522-5635. ILLUSTRATIONS BY THINKSTOCK More women than men have died from heart disease every year since 1984. Yet only one woman in five believes it to be her greatest health threat. So why do women continue to overlook heart disease? "In the past, all the research was done on older men," says BMH cardiologist Stuart Smalheiser, MD. "But it's not just a man's disease; more women die of heart disease than anything else." While women typically are faster to visit a doctor than men if they have an ailment, data shows they are slower to seek medical attention when they experience heart attack symptoms. "They arrive at the ER later in the process than men," Smalheiser says. "It could CALL

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