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Healthy Heart

Listen to Kathleen Dunn! Busy Woman’s Guide on NPR

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NPR’s Kathleen Dunn hosts a discussion about women and heart disease with Eliz Greene.

Fellow heart attack survivor and radio host, Kathleen Dunn leads a discussion about women and heart disease today, May 5th from 10 – 11 am (Central Time)
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Cortisol is Trouble! Busy Woman’s Guide to a Healthy Heart

Is the stress hormone making you fat and hurting your heart?

Cortisol is a hormone produced by your adrenal glands. We all need cortisol to help us react to stressful situations, especially those requiring a “fight or flight” reaction. Our bodies react to stress by giving us a quick burst of energy, lowering our sensitivity to [...]

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Blame Your Parents! Busy Woman’s Guide to a Healthy Heart

Here’s what you need to know about family history and heart disease.

Taking all other risk factors into account, if you have a close family member with heart disease, your risk nearly doubles.
While this news may be a bit frightening, it is good news in one way. Even if you do not have symptoms today, [...]

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Cholesterol: Good or Bad? Busy Woman’s Guide to a Healthy Heart

Here is what you need to know about
cholesterol:

Cholesterol isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A soft, waxy substance naturally found in your body, “good” cholesterol (or HDL) is needed to digest fat, make hormones such as estrogen and progesterone, and produce vitamin D in the skin. You want your HDL to be high.
However, “bad” cholesterol (or [...]

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Is Estrogen Your Friend? Busy Woman’s Guide to a Healthy Heart

Here’s what you need to know about estrogen and your heart

While doctors are not completely sure how estrogen works, it is clear younger women enjoy some protection from heart disease most likely related to estrogen’s role in the control of cholesterol. As women age, the amount of estrogen decreases and their risk of heart disease [...]

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Silent Killer! Busy Woman’s Guide to a Healthy Heart

Here’s what you need to know about blood pressure

About one in every three Americans has high blood pressure. There are no symptoms and only just over half of the people with high blood pressure receive treatment.
Often called the “silent killer,” uncontrolled high blood pressure can cause stroke, heart attack, heart failure, and kidney failure.
Blood pressure [...]

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