The Female Heart: The Truth About Women and Heart Disease

by Legato, Marianne J.

• ISBN13: 9780688180652
• ISBN10: 0688180655
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

(Quill) Columbia Univ., New York, NY. Provides women with the vital information they need to understand, avoid, and survive heart disease: the number one killer of women in the United States. Winner of the American Heart Association Howard W. Blakeslee Award. Reprint of book originally published in 1991, with a new preface. For consumers. Softcover.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Introduction	xv
I The Healthy Heart: When Things Are Going Right	1	(12)
The Normal Female Heart and How It Works	3	(10)
Why Women Are Different	13	(36)
Anatomy of a Woman	15	(11)
Synthetic Hormones and the Heart	26	(9)
Pregnancy and Your Heart	35	(14)
What Can Go Wrong	49	(46)
Coronary Artery Disease	51	(22)
Angina	73	(5)
Cardiac Arrhythmia	78	(7)
Congenital Heart Defects	85	(10)
The Woman At Risk for Heart Attack	95	(30)
Profile of the High-Risk Woman	97	(8)
High Blood Pressure: The Silent Killer	105	(14)
When Does Risk Begin?	119	(6)
The Female Heart and the Female Mind	125	(24)
The Stressed-Out Woman	127	(17)
A Lethal Dose of Stress	144	(5)
When Things Go Wrong	149	(38)
A Guide to Tests and Numbers	151	(9)
Having a Heart Attack	160	(10)
The Road to Recovery	170	(17)
Taking Care of Yourself	187	(42)
Working with Your Doctor	189	(10)
Good News for Women About Exercise	199	(9)
A Woman's Diet and Heart Disease	208	(21)
It's Only the Beginning	229	(2)
Epilogue	231	(2)
Resources	233	(4)
Selected Bibliography	237	(6)
Index	243