FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, July 15,1998
A matter o f health
density lipoprotein
(Editor's note: An article on
various aspects o f health written
by Family Nurse Practitioner
Wendy Haack, Pioneer Memorial
Clinic, will appear periodically
in the Gazette-Times.)
by Wendy Haack
Family Nurse Practitioner
Women and Heart Disease
There is a new emphasis today
on woman and Heart Disease. In
many cases woman are no longer
combined in the same medical
model as men. In my current
readings on heart disease, and
most recently in a seminar I
attended on “Women and Heart
Disease,” the emphasis has been
on the fact that women
experience
heart
disease
differently than men.
Cardiovascular disease is the
number one cause o f death in
women, accounting for 37
percent of deaths in all age
groups and more than 50 percent
of deaths in women following
menopause.
One-third of the
women over the age of 65 will
have
complications
from
coronary artery disease (CAD)
with a greater increased death
rate than men.
In addition, women tend to have
more increased risk factors than
men. Women who have high
blood pressure and have not yet
reached menopause are 10 fold
more likely to develop CAD
before menopause.
Women
delay seeking help after a heart
attack for, on average, five hours.
This decreases the window of
opportunity for using clot busters
that can help minimize the risks
and increases the incidence of
complications.
Once a woman has suffered a
heart attack, she is more likely
than a man to have another heart
attack or stroke within six years
or die within one year.
Dr. Wellborn, a cardiologist
specializing in women, broke the
risk factors for women down into
three
categories:
major,
intermediate and minor. There
are risk factors that place women
at major risk for CAD and heart
attack:
menopause
without
hormone replacement, diabetes,
history- of peripheral vascular
disease, and menopause due to
surgery. Dr. Wellborn stated that
women who are in menopause
due to
surgery have a
significantly greater risk of CAD
than women who go into
menopause naturally.
Intermediate risk factors were
high blood pressure, smoking,
and a low high density
lipoprotein (HDL) level. The
HDL is a greater predictor of
death in women then it is for
men.
Minor risk factors included age
greater than 65, obesity, physical
inactivity, and a family history of
CAD. What is also significant is
that smoking and oral contractive
pills increase the risk of stroke
and coronary artery disease in
women.
According to Dr.
Wellborn, women who smoke
and are on oral contraceptives are
39 times more likely to have a
heart attack.
Women suffer the symptom of
angina/chest pain more often
than men. Women tend to have
plugging of their smaller
coronary arteries while men tend
to plug their larger coronary
arteries. This means that women
experience chest pain somewhat
differently than men. Women
may experience the “typical”
chest pain pressure with radiation
to the arms, neck, jaw or back.
However, women have a greater
variance in their described
symptoms. Their chest pain may
be described as shoulder and
neck pain, heart bum or stomach
upset, chest cramping, shortness
of breath, fatigue, breast
discomfort
and nausea and
vomiting is more likely to occur.
The symptoms are usually
related to activity or emotional
stress.
When it comes to treatment,
women have a lower success rate
with balloon angioplasty and
stent placement and an increased
risk o f death from angioplasty
and stent placement due to
complications. Women tend to
have more complications and
higher death rates following open
heart surgery as well.
So, what can women do to help
prevent coronary artery disease
and heart attack? First, if you
smoke - stop. If you have high
blood
pressure,
keep
it
controlled.
An ideal blood
pressure is 140/85 or lower.
Women need to keep their
HDL’s above 40 and their
cholesterol less than 200. High
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elevated
through
exercise.
Cholesterol is lowered through
diet. Weight loss is vital. If you
are a diabetic tight blood sugar
control is mandatory.
Finally,
according to Dr. Wellborn,
estrogen is the most powerful
drug treatment for women.
If you have further questions
regarding your risk of heart
disease, I would be glad to
answer your questions at 676-
5504 or contact your provider.
For questions about diet control
please feel free to contact our
dietitian at Pioneer Memorial
Hospital 676-9133.
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Obituary
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May Ekstrom
May Ekstrom, 83, of lone, died
Tuesday, July 7,1998, at Pioneer
M em orial N ursing Home in
Heppner.
Graveside service was held
Saturday, July 11, 1998 at High
View Cemetery in lone.
May McClain was bom July 13,
1914, at Huntington, West Virginia,
to Mineth and Lula Mills McClain.
The family moved to Oregon,
where she was raised and at
tended school in Portland, gradu
ating from Parkrose High School
in 1931.
On February 17, 1932, she
mamed Herbert R. Ekstrom at
Portland. They moved to the lone
area in 1943, where they farmed
and raised polled cattle. They re
tired and continued to live in lone.
Mr. Ekstrom died in 1989.
Mrs. Ekstrom was a member
of the Lutheran Church, Eastern
Star, the Grange, the Oregon
Cattle Association and Polled
Hereford Association.
Survivors include sons, Herb,
Jr., of lone, Richard of Enumclaw,
W ashington, and Roland of
Roseburg; 10 grandchildren and
16 great-grandchildren; and a
brother, M ineth M cClain o f
Vancouver, Washington.
Memorial contributions may be
made to Histiocytosis Association
o f America, Dept. W, 302 N.
Broadway, Pitman, New Jersey,
08071.
Sweeney Mortuary of Hepp
ner was in charge o f arrange
ments.
H un ter class
A hunter education course has
been scheduled for the Heppner
area.
The course will be held on July
28, 29 and 31 and August 3, 7
and 8. The first five sessions will
be from 6-8 p.m. at the Forest
Service office in Heppner. The
session on August 8 will be a live
fire from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. As a
general rule, all sessions must be
attended for the student to pass.
No other class will be offered in
the area this summer, so kids
who need this class should attend
this one.
In addition to learning safe
hunting techniques, students
taking this class will learn proper
hunter ethics, basic wildlife
management and outdoor skills.
The course is required for all
hunters younger than 18 (unless
they hunt on their own property)
in Oregon.
Anyone interested or wanting
more information, should call
Russ Morgan at 676-5230 (days)
or 676-5729 (evenings).
A $5 donation is requested to
cover the cost of ammunition for
the live fire.
P R O P O S E D
Annie Hisler (left) and Lexi Matteson with the Oregon High School
Rodeo Association saddle donated by Les Schwab Tires.
Matteson and Hisler, along with Emmet Evans, will go to the National
Finals Rodeo to be held at Gillette, Wyoming, July 18-26.
Matteson was second in barrels, fourth in breakaway roping, fifth in
pole bending, eighth in goat tying and 10th in team roping at the Or
egon High School Rodeo Finals.
Hisler took second in poles and fifth in barrels.
Evans was third in calf roping, third in saddle bronc, ninth in steer
wrestling and second in team roping.
Willow Creek Road construction update
The U.S. Dept, of Trans
portation lists its planned
construction activities on Willow
Creek Road for the week of
Monday, July 13.
Tidewater will be continuing
with the cut slope excavation and
placing rock embankment with
materials from the cut slope,
working between the beginning
of the project and Smith Ditch.
The surveyors are on the project,
placing stakes for cuts and fills,
rock embankment areas and for
the various culverts located along
the project. They plan to start
working 14 hour days beginning
this week, in order to benefit
from the longer daylight hours
and good weather. They will be
starting on the placement of a
36" culvert near the middle of the
project and then move to the
Smith Ditch area and place the
two culverts designed for that
location. Tidewater will continue
to haul debris to a waste site near
the Cutsforth property located on
the FS Road 21, so be aware of
the large truck traffic on this
route.
Willow Creek Road (Coal
Mine Grade) is closed to through
traffic from Cutsforth Park to the
intersection of Forest Service
roads 5320 and 53. This
intersection will remain open, to
the logging contractor only, for
the removal of timber sale
material. The FS 21 Road,
Penland Lake Road, intersection
will
remain
open
until
construction activities restrict
traffic with flaggers in the middle
of July.
Willow Creek Road remains
open, to local traffic only, to
Cutsforth Park. The park will
remain open for the construction
season.
The Willow Creek Road
Closure will continue through
Oct. 9, 1998. The detour route
through the Shaw Creek Road
will be the main travel route
through to the four comers to
Penland Lake and Ukiah.
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signs for the detour route and
barricades at both ends of the
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the barricaded road closures are
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Federal Highways asks the
traveling public for their
patience, consideration and coop
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season and hopes that the work
will be completed with a
minimum of delays.
For more information, contact
Robert G. Toops, project en
gineer, at 676-5904 in Heppner
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