Women Are Not Small Men: Life-Saving Strategies for Preventing and Healing Heart Disease in Women - Softcover

Goldberg, Nieca

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345440994 ISBN 13: 9780345440990

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 2003

Synopsis

An innovative and up-to-date guide for women dispels the myths and misinformation about women and heart health, providing proven programs for women of all ages that cover such information as exercise and diet for both prevention and recovery, estrogen and hormone replacement therapy, supplements and herbal remedies, and much more. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

Nieca Goldberg, M.D., is the chief of cardiac rehabilitation and chief of the Women’s Heart Program, a unique cardiac rehabilitation and prevention program for women that she created at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. She is also medical director of the cardio-rehab program and the May Center for Health, Fitness, and Sport at the 92nd Street Y. In New York magazine’s “Best Doctors” of 1999 and 2000 lists Dr. Goldberg was among the top ten Hall of Fame of physicians.
From the Hardcover edition.

From the Inside Flap:

very two women will die of heart disease. It is the single greatest health risk for women today—more than stroke and all cancers combined. In the course of her work as founder and chief of the Women’s Heart Program at New York’s Lenox Hill Hospital, Dr. Goldberg has come to a startling realization: Women experience heart disease in a fundamentally different way than men do. The physiology of a woman’s heart attack is not the same as a man’s, the symptoms of heart disease and signs of impending heart attack differ for women, and once heart disease has been recognized, women often do not get the treatment and medications they require. Now here are detailed, age-specific programs that give women the facts and the guidance they need to recognize, treat, and prevent heart disease, including

· How you can rate your risk of heart disease
· The effects of menopause on your heart
· Risk factors you can change—starting t

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0345440994
• ISBN 13: 9780345440990
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 453