305: Five Minute Friday: Heart Disease in Women: Understanding Symptoms & Risk Factors
Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™
Kay Durairaj, MD, FACS @beautybydrkay
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🗓️ 8 February 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Heart disease is often thought to be more of a problem for men. However, heart disease is the nation's number one leading killer of women, causing 1 in 3 deaths each year, with the two most common types of Heart Disease conditions being coronary heart disease and heart attacks. Because some heart disease symptoms differ from those in men, women often don't know what to look for; about half of all people in the U.S. (47%) have at least one risk factor. In this week's Five Minute Friday on Beauty Bytes: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon, I discuss the symptoms and risk factors to reduce their risks and living a healthy lifestyle that can keep heart disease at bay. Tune in to hear the remaining symptoms and risk factors of heart disease and how to prevent them! Take the next step to providing structure to your body! If you have a question for something you’d like covered on the podcast, feel free to send me a DM or email info@beautybydrkay.com and I’d be happy to respond!
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, secretsrets of a Plastic Surgeon, and it's time for a |
| 0:22.0 | five-minute Friday. It is National Women's Health Month, and because of that, we are going to |
| 0:29.2 | talk about women's heart health. Yay. I actually love cardiology. It's my husband's specialty. He's an interventional cardiologist, and I feel like over |
| 0:40.0 | the years, I have learned so much from hearing him talk on the phone, talk to patients, that I want to |
| 0:47.2 | emphasize the importance of heart health for women and for all of us. Did you know that about one in |
| 0:53.2 | 16 women, age 20 and older, have coronary heart disease? |
| 0:57.8 | That's a lot. One out of 16, 6% of women. |
| 1:02.1 | And actually, I just had my blood tested and my cholesterol was high, which freaked me out because I don't eat that much butter and meat and steak. |
| 1:10.6 | I'm really pretty healthy. So |
| 1:12.2 | sometimes these problems can be inherited, genetic, and it's important to get yourself checked. |
| 1:18.6 | If you're over 35, get your EKG if you've never had one. If you have a family history of heart |
| 1:25.0 | disease, go get yourself checked because you never know |
| 1:28.1 | what you're predisposed to. |
| 1:30.3 | Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of women. |
| 1:34.9 | The number one killer of women, let's say that again, |
| 1:37.4 | that's crazy, it's the number one thing we die from, |
| 1:40.7 | causing one out of every three deaths each year. Nobody thinks about women when they think about |
| 1:46.8 | heart disease and people having heart attacks and being killed by that. But that's so important |
| 1:52.6 | for us to not be neglected and ignored. This is not just a disease of men. And two of the most |
| 1:59.6 | common types of heart disease women have are coronary artery |
| 2:02.5 | disease and heart attacks. What are your symptoms? If you're having a heart attack, some women |
| 2:08.0 | actually have no symptoms. And they actually just press on through their day like they're just |
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