February 20, 2008
heart’s pumping action, bkxxlcan’t
circulate within your body to get
oxygen and nutrients to your or
gans. Butformany.ourheart health
is at risk. About every 26 seconds,
an American will have a coronary
event, and about one every minute
will die from it.
In the African-American com
munity, cardiovascular disease,
which includes heart attack and
stroke, is the leading cause of death
for men and women. Each year it
takes more than 100,000people from
their loved ones and families far too
soon. Nearly 50 percent of all Afri
can-American adults have cardio
vascular disease.
When you think of someone
having a heart attack, you might
think of a middle-aged man. The
truth is cardiovascular health isn't
just a "man’s issue.” Did you know
that women account for more than
half o f the total heart-disease
deaths? Surprised? Y ou're not
®*$ortianb (Obamier Black History Month
United States die of heart disease
and stroke as from all forms of can
cer, including breast cancer.
Much of the burden of heart
disease and stroke could be elimi
healthy responses to stress may
lead to other risk behaviors like
smoking and overeating.
The average age of first heart
attack is 66. But it's not just those
It takes years and in some
cases decades for those bad
habits to catch up with us.
they make today.
Visit your physician regularly so
any irregularities are caught early.
Just because you look great on the
outside doesn't mean your insides
are keeping up. Awareness is the
first s^ep in combating heart at
tacks and stroke, and its precursors
such as hypertension.
Patients who need help access
ing their prescription medicines can
turn to the Partnership for Prescrip
tion Assistance, a national clear
inghouse of patient-assistance pro
grams.
In just two years the program
has helped connect more than 3.5
million patients in need to programs
that provide either free or nearly
free medicines. For more informa
tion, patients can call 1-888-4PPA-
NOW or visit pparx.org.
nated by reducing its major risk with gray hair that need to know
factors. Those risk factors include how to keep their hearts healthy. In
high blood pressure, high blood a recent survey, researchers were
cholesterol, smoking, diabetes, lack surprised to find that most young
of exercise and poor nutrition.
adults did not know the major risk
Y ou've heard it before, but I’m factors for heart disease. Many bad
going to say it again - lifestyle habits that are risk factors for de
choices, like what you eat and how veloping heart disease later in life,
Larry Lucas is a vice president
much you exercise, play such a like diet and exercise patterns and fo r the Pharmaceutical Research
critical role in preventing all kinds tobacco use, begin when we’re and Manufacturers o f America
of potentially devastating diseases. young. It takes years and in some iPhRMA).
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