[Freedom]

[alexr_rwx]

This morning: the traditional Turner Field to Lenox Mall and Back Home, about 19 miles, if you account for all the times I had to cross the street. It went pretty well! I slowed down a bit towards the end (and took a little break for stretching and espresso), but it mostly felt good. I want to do that same run a few more times before the race.

Also out today was an enormous contingent of ladies and dudes, walking a considerably long way for Breast Cancer Awareness, all decked out in pink and with cool accessories like pompoms, fairy wings, and cute ears and whiskers. There must have been thousands of people out, all ages, and they filled the sidewalks all through Buckhead. Very cheerful scene.

Now for foods. Oh, foods.

Oh, and I'm about to go learn about Freedom (well. firearms) with Corey varineb. It's probably good to see what people are excited about? Who knows, maybe I'll turn out to love shooting ranges? ...

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[deepdistraction.livejournal.com]

Actually, they're finding a fair number of differences between women and men in the way heart disease presents. Two-thirds of women who die from coronary heart disease (CHD) have NO previously recognized symptoms. Chest pain is the presenting symptom in less than 50% of women with CHD. Almost half of myocardial infarctions (MIs or heart attacks) in women present with shortness of breath, nausea, indigestion, fatigue and even shoulder pain--all of which women experience more commonly than men, and so there is diagnostic confusion.

Because of all this, women seek medical care LATER than men for these symptoms, and are more likely to be misdiagnosed. Women UNDER 65 suffer the highest relative sex-specific CHD mortality--twice as high as men for people under age 50. Mortality from coronary artery bypass surgery--particularly among younger women--is DOUBLE than of men. Nine thousand U.S. women younger than 45 sustain a heart attack each year. And more women than men die within a year after a heart attack.

Despite the risk factors that AREN'T controllable (family history, age) many more risk factors ARE preventable. In fact, coronary heart disease is largely preventable. Hypertension (65% of which is undetected or inadequately treated), smoking (50% of heart disease is attributable to this), obesity (1/3 of American women are obese and this percentage is increasing!), physical inactivity ( regular physical activity reduces the risk of coronary heart disease by 50%) are all risk factors that are controllable.

It's not a question of devoting time, money and resources. It's a question of awareness.