Shock figures reveal women's heart disease risks : belfasttelegraph

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Shock figures reveal women's heart disease risks

Shock figures reveal women's heart disease risks

A woman who suffered heart disease despite leading a healthy lifestyle has urged anyone with concerns to seek help before it's too late.Monica McCann had heart disease despite leading a healthy lifestyleA woman who suffered heart disease despite leading a healthy lifestyle has urged anyone with concerns to seek help before it's too late.Monica McCann (53), from south Belfast, was speaking as shocking new figures revealed that one in four deaths among women were from heart and circulatory disease each year in Northern Ireland.Share Facebook Twitter Google EmailGo ToThat adds up to five women every day - meaning twice as many women die of heart disease than breast cancer.


in the same way indiatimes

Cancer pips heart disease to become Australia's biggest killer

Cancer pips heart disease to become Australia's biggest killer

SYDNEY: Cancer has become Australia's biggest killer, overtaking heart disease for the first time to take more lives than any other ailment, a government health agency said in a report released on Tuesday.Indigenous Australians also fare much worse than non-indigenous on almost every health score, according to Australia's Health 2016 report, complied by the government's Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and published every two years.The total number of deaths from cancer was 44,100 in 2013, the institute said, for the first time surpassing the number of deaths from cardiovascular disease , including heart attacks and stroke.Lung cancer is Australia's most common fatal cancer."People are now living long enough to get cancer in greater numbers," said Professor Lisa Horvath, director of research at the Chris O'Brien Lifehouse cancer hospital in Sydney."Age is the biggest risk factor, apart from smoking, for getting cancer."Globally, cardiovascular diseases are a bigger killer than cancer, according to the World Health Organisation Australia is doing better than Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development averages for life expectancy and infant mortality.But on both counts, the figures for indigenous Australians lag badly behind developed-world averages.While the gap is narrowing, there remains a profound disparity in health scores between Aborigines, who comprise three per cent of Australia's population, and their non-indigenous counterparts.


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iafrica.com Women's risk of heart disease on the increase

iafrica.com Women's risk of heart disease on the increase

Women's risk of heart disease on the increaseShare©Pressmaster/Shutterstock.comCardiovascular disease (CVD) claims the lives of about 110 women in South Africa every day which means it can no longer be considered a "man's disease".Current rates suggest that more women are dying of heart disease than men and that they're unlikely to survive their first attack.Dr Suzette Fourie, a prominent SA cardiologist said the problemcanbe two-fold, either doctors are misdiagnosing women or women are misinterpreting heart attack signs."A heart attack often presents itself differently in women.


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Cancer overtakes heart disease as Australia's biggest killer

Cancer overtakes heart disease as Australia's biggest killer

SYDNEY Cancer has become Australia's biggest killer, overtaking heart disease for the first time to take more lives than any other ailment, a government health agency said in a report released on Tuesday.Indigenous Australians also fare much worse than non-indigenous on almost every health score, according to Australia's Health 2016 report, complied by the government's Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and published every two years.The total number of deaths from cancer was 44,100 in 2013, the institute said, for the first time surpassing the number of deaths from cardiovascular disease, including heart attacks and stroke.Lung cancer is Australia's most common fatal cancer.