According to a research conferred at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2015, women are putting themselves at risk of heart disease through lack of consciousness.
As per Medical News Today, Heart disease and stroke are the most usual originators of death among American women; 1 in 3 women's mortality are rooted by heart disease and stroke in the US per year.
While heart disease and stroke death ratio among men have decreased consistently over the last 25 years, women's rates have fallen at a much gradual estimate.
Furthermore, 64% of women who die quickly of coronary heart disease have no prior symptoms.
Those who knew another woman with heart disease are 25% more probably to be distressed about it for themselves and 19% more probably to bring up heart health with their doctors.
However, most women still say they do not have a personal association to cardiovascular illness.
Survey highlights need for awareness
A team from the Women's Heart Alliance spearheaded by Dr. C. Noel Bairey Merz, director of the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center and professor of medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA, accomplished a survey of 1,011 adult women.
They asked an arbitrary sampling of women ages 25-60 across the US in an online survey that lasted for about 15 minutes. Women were equipped with computers and Internet access if needed. Researchers distributed the effects of age, ethnicity, education, income, region and race.
The survey revealed that only 27% of women can identify a woman in their lives with heart condition and only 11% can identify a woman who has died from it. Among those aged 25-49, about 23% know a woman with heart condition, distinguished from 37% of women aged 50-60.
The findings emphasize the detachment most women experience between the extensive character of women's heart disease and their personal understanding.
