YOUR HEART IS YOUR LIFE

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YOUR HEART IS YOUR LIFE!

• Women and Heart Disease
• Presented by Mandi Cecil
• BS Exercise Science
• ACSM Personal Fitness Trainer

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YOUR HEART IS YOUR LIFE!

• What is heart disease?
• The facts for women to know.
• What to do if you think you are having a heart
  attack?
• Video
• V. Own Index Heart Rate Readings
• VI. Open Floor

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What is Heart Disease?

• Heart disease Coronary Artery Disease
• This is the narrowing of the coronary artery
  that reduces blood flow to the heart muscle.
  Which can cause chest pain (angina) or heart
  attack (myocardial infraction).
• These arteries branch throughout the 4 chambers
  of the heart and play a vital role in supplying
  the heart muscle with oxygen-rich blood.

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• They become narrow due to a build up of fatty
  plaque (Atherosclerosis)
• or a genetic link.
• Coronary Artery Disease is the most common form
  of heart disease the most preventable.

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• Risk Factors
• Diabetes
• Obesity
• High Cholesterol
• High Blood Pressure
• Stress
• These factors increase a women's chance of a
  heart attack by 34 over a mans.

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• Symptoms
• Pain in Chest, Lower Chest, Upper Abdominal, Jaw
  Neck
• Fatigue Indigestion
• Difficulty Breathing
• Nausea Ache in BOTH arms
• Pain in-between Shoulder Blades
• DO NOT second guess how you are feeling (know
  your body)

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• What you should know?
• Only 20 of physicians know that women have a
  57 higher rate of death from a heart attack.
• In women, Plaque is more evenly distributed
  throughout the arteries of the heart verses in
  one area with men. Causing not just one area of
  the heart to lose oxygen.
• Remember that most research and diagnosis
  strategies have been studied on men.
• Estrogen replacement DOES NOT reduce your risk.
• - There is no known reason for why women more
  commonly die from heart attacks than men, but
  research is progressing hopefully soon we will
  know.

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What you can do to save your own life.

• 1- Be your own advocate! Be educated! Trust your
  Doctor!
• 2- Be aware of your personal risk of heart
  disease.
• 3- Exercise, modify your diet stop smoking
  NOW!!!
• 4- Learn ways to stay stress free
• 5- Know your body and what is normal for you.
• 6- Remember that heart disease is not necessarily
  hormonal.

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• What to do if you are having a heart attack?
• Call 911 immediately
• Remain calm relaxed
• DO NOT take aspirin!
• Do not wait second guess what other aliments
  might be causing what you are feeling. You might
  not get another chance!

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Discovery HealthHeart Attack
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Your Target Heart Rate

• We will show you how to calculate your own Target
  Heart Rate for Exercise/Training.
• Getting your Resting Heart Rate (pulse for 1
  minute)
• - Karvonen Formula Sheet

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Stress Management Wednesday, August 9th_at_
2pmDelaware Hall 032
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Own Index

• Ownindex is a quick way to estimate your maximal
  cardiovascular power.
• Finding this out will show you how strong your
  cardiovascular system works to transport oxygen
  to your body.
• This test will take approximately 3 minutes, is
  not physical and quite accurate.