BS: National Wear Red Day

Subject: BS: National Wear Red Day
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Jan 10 - 10:19 AM

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/educational/hearttruth/materials/wear-red-toolkit.htm

Cardiovascular disease is the NUMBER! killer of women in the US. Wear RED on February 5 and get checked regularly, ladies.

Subject: RE: BS: National Wear Red Day
From: GUEST,999
Date: 26 Jan 10 - 02:21 PM

It's also the number 1 killer of men, fyi.

Subject: RE: BS: National Wear Red Day
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Jan 10 - 02:37 PM

You can wear red too. I guess you didn't open the link.

Subject: RE: BS: National Wear Red Day
From: jeffp
Date: 26 Jan 10 - 02:42 PM

The main difference in heart disease between men and women is awareness. Men are much more aware of the problem than women. This campaign is aiming to change that. I have no problem with that.

Subject: RE: BS: National Wear Red Day
From: Amergin
Date: 26 Jan 10 - 02:52 PM

Oh I thought this was going to be national socialism awareness day....

Subject: RE: BS: National Wear Red Day
From: GUEST,999
Date: 26 Jan 10 - 02:56 PM

Actually, I did, SINS. I wasn't trying to be antagonistic. I simply wondered why the biggest killer of people was suddenly a women's issue. The biggest killer of firefighters is heart attack, whether they be male or female.

Subject: RE: BS: National Wear Red Day
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Jan 10 - 03:09 PM

Because women have received less attention re: heart disease than men for years. They need to be proactive with their doctors, monitor their blood pressure, have periodic check ups, etc.

A woman who is obsessive about mammograms and checking her breasts for cancer often gives no thought to regular follow up for heart disease.

Subject: RE: BS: National Wear Red Day
From: Becca72
Date: 26 Jan 10 - 03:16 PM

Heart attacks in women often present symptoms not common of heart attacks in men, also. Women are less likely to have the traditional "chest and arm pain" and more likely to feel an upset stomach or heartburn...a fact too many women aren't aware of.

Subject: RE: BS: National Wear Red Day
From: Mr Red
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 10:17 AM

Choose your parents well and take regular exercise.

Wearing red is optional for some people, if I don't I get questions, questions, questions.

I will be wearing red on the 6th at Stroud Ceilidhs Climax Ceilidh Band sionce you ask. Richard Jones (accordian) was a founder member of the Climax Blues Band - remember them?

Subject: RE: BS: National Wear Red Day
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 10:21 AM

So weird. I was just here to refresh this.
Thanks, Mr. Red.

Subject: RE: BS: National Wear Red Day
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 10:32 AM

Thanks for the tip, Mary.

Looks like a goood awareness campaign, although their PR people (maybe their web people?) haven't gotten keyed into the social networking options -- no clickies for Facebook sharing, etc. I hope they don't assume that their audience isn't into that... they're aiming in particular at women aged 40-60, and especially African-American and Hispanic women.

Anyway, I'll pass it on!

~ Becky in Long Beach

Subject: RE: BS: National Wear Red Day
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 11:16 AM

I sent a note to their webmaster. :-)

Here's what I posted on Facebook, along with a link to their "About" page (because it has a nice graph image) -- http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/educational/hearttruth/about/index.htm , assembled from a few web resources:

Wake women up to the risk of heart disease: wear red on Feb. 5. Spread the word.

Heart disease is the #1 killer of women (and men) and the most *preventable* causes of disease death. Assess your risk factors: High blood pressure, High blood cholesterol, Diabetes, Smoking, Being overweight, Being physically inactive, Having a family history of early heart disease, Age (55 or older for women).

About a third of women experience no chest pain at all when having a heart attack and 71% of women report flu-like symptoms for two weeks to a month prior to having more acute chest discomfort or severe shortness of breath. Shortness of breath, nausea/vomiting, and back or jaw pain can be symptoms of heart attack, as well as chest or abdominal pain.

Subject: RE: BS: National Wear Red Day
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 12:21 PM

How strange....Heart disease being a Woman's Issue.

It's a people issue, trust me, I used to work for a Cardiothoracic Surgeon and a Cardiologist..

Up until recently, you'd a thought cancer was a woman only problem too, but thankfully, that is now starting to become equal, as cancer which attacks men is now being allowed to be recognised.

It's terrible that the whole medical thing isn't geared around people, rather than 'the sexes'. We all have heart attacks, cancer, assorted diseases, so why segregate them? Weird...

Subject: RE: BS: National Wear Red Day
From: Becca72
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 02:21 PM

I don't interpret this thread that way at all, Lizzie. I think it's a matter of perspective. It seems to me Sinsull's point was that fewer women are aware of heart disease and need more education regarding it, not that heart disease is a "womens' issue".
Your mileage may vary.

Subject: RE: BS: National Wear Red Day
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 02:43 PM

And I was simply reiterating what the National Institutes of Health are claiming is the case. Both women and doctors are less likely to attribute symptoms in women to heart attacks than the same symptoms in men.

Subject: RE: BS: National Wear Red Day
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 01:26 PM

Tomorrow is the day.
From my pin tag:
"Women in America are dying of heart disease at the rate of almost one per minute. By making the right choices for our hearts, this No. 1 killer is largely prevetable.
Wearing...red shows your commitment to tunr personal choices into living saving actions."

Subject: RE: BS: National Wear Red Day
From: jeffp
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 08:19 PM

Last Sunday my wife was shoveling snow because I was sick in bed. She started feeling nauseated while she was picking up our daughter and texted me to get some Tums while she was out. Finally, some Mylanta got her feeling better, so we thought no more of it. A couple of days later she had some pain which moved up into her jaw. Remembering this thread, I insisted she call her cardiologist, who she had just seen the day before. He sent her to the Emergency Room, where tests showed she had probably had a heart attack. This morning, she was flown to Washington Hospital Center where they catheterized her and confirmed a mild heart attack with minimal damage, which they expect to reverse.

Thank you Sinsull, for what may very well have saved my wife's life.

Jeff

Subject: RE: BS: National Wear Red Day
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 03:06 PM

Lost my post...

THAT'S what it's about; so glad that you followed up, Jeff.

~ Becky in Tucson