Researchers at University of Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas found that women with a family history of heart disease were less likely than men to change habits such as smoking and infrequent physical activity. In fact, they were more likely to engage in lifestyle choices that increase their risk of heart disease than are women who didn’t report a history of heart disease.

Seriously speaking, we need to be smarter than that. If you know what a risk factor is, which I know most of us do, then why not do all that you can to change the situation? Us women need to stick together and support and encourage each other. Find a buddy to walk and diet with or ask your partner to help you make lifestyle changes so you will be here to enjoy life together. Yeah, it sound kind of serious when I put it like that huh?

What do you do to help yourself stay on track? Do you find it difficult or is it a piece of cake? I know that personally, I need a kick in the ol’ butt every once in a while.

via Science Daily

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Women Are Less Likely To Make Lifestyle Changes That Favor The Heart

The Cancion System, manufactured by Orqis Medical Corp., is a pump device that is introduced into the body via catheters inserted through tiny incisions in the groin. Once placed, the pump draws blood from the patient’s iliac artery – located in the pelvis – into a small external pump. From there, the blood goes through another catheter placed in the heart’s descending aorta, where it is re-introduced for continuous blood flow.

Thus it will improve heart function, ie. muscle function, without replacing the heart or most of it’s parts. Much less invasive and less risky then a transplant. This will hopefully give chronic heart failure patients a longer amount of time outside the hospital and a more “normal” style life.

What do you think? Would you be willing to be a part of a study like this? Are you as excited as me over the prospects of this type of system improving cardiac patients quality of life?

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A New Device To Treat Patient’s With Chronic Congestive Heart Failure