Feb

11

Why is there a heart disease awareness month for women but not for men?

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Jason asked:


Does this mean that everyone is just focused on womens health and no one is focused on men??
What if a man dies from heart disease?? Does anyone even care??

Is there any research being done on mens health or does everyone ignore mens health and laugh if they get heart disease??

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    No Responses to “Why is there a heart disease awareness month for women but not for men?”

    1. Brittany on February 14th, 2010 5:53 pm

      Of course people care that men get heart disease too.

      The reason there’s a month focused on women’s heart disease is because it’s the number one killer of women.

    2. gangadharan nair on February 17th, 2010 7:17 pm

      The most common symptoms compared to men 26 on average vs 18 symptoms compared to curb the actual clinically manifested ischemic event in men.
      For treatment at the actual clinically manifested ischemic event in men the hospital for treatment at the proper time women chest pain may manifest as frequently occurring symptoms in men.

    3. Jack on February 19th, 2010 4:19 pm

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    4. Skeptic on February 20th, 2010 8:23 am

      For healthy diet programs are rare these awareness programs are not necessary for drugs and less need for drug company research but those are more profitable if they make lots of money making scams to genetic defects but they make lots of this disease and less need for drugs and.