For Her Heart/USA
Non Profit Established 2009
For Her Heart is a sanctuary for women to nurture their heart health through self care.
With guidance and compassion, we help women move away from the stressful thoughts invoked by heart disease awareness to the positive energy of cultivating heart health. A primary focus of this outreach is to help women naturally maintain optimal blood pressure, HDL cholesterol and lessen arterial inflammation. This will reduce risk of heart attack and stroke. Worldwide, the information presented within this website helps women replace misperceptions about heart health and worry about heart attack with an appreciation for and an ability to nurture their cardio-vascular health. In general this information is provided complimentary. The For Her Heart Initiative does provide Private Membership for more detailed medical perspective and personalized cardio-vascular prevention, and management. |
Contemporary Reseach in Women's Heart Disease Prevention
New medical research and discovery provides advancements in women’s cardio-vascular health.
Communicating these advancement to gynecologists, general practitioners and cardiologist is often a challenge.
Yet, for optimal case management these communications are of primary importance.
Applying contemporary research outcomes/findings to the prevention and management of cardio-vascular disease
in women will improve health outcomes.
A limited sample of this research is noted below. When I provide medical perspective and consultations,
I blend this focused research with cardio-vascular physiology to manage and reduce women’s cardio-vascular risks.
1) Mechanisms of Estrogenic Vascular Protection.
Am J Physiology Heart Circ Physiology 290: H507-508, 2006.
2) Estrogen and Different Aspects of Vascular Disease in Women and Men
Circulation Research. 2006;99:459
3) Estrogen Modulation of Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase.
Endocrine Review 23 (5): 665-686, 2002.
4) Estrogen Causes Dynamic Alterations in Endothelial Estrogen Receptor Expression.
Circulation Research 91: 814: 2002.
5) Estrogen Receptors Activate Atrial Natriuretic Peptide in the Rat Heart.
PNSA, Sept 2001, Vol.98, No 20, 11765-11770
6) Effects of Estrogen on Aortic Function in Postmenopausal Women.
Am J Physiology Heart Circ Physiology 276: H658-662, 1999.
7) The Protective Effects of Estrogen on the Cardiovascular System.
NEJM Volume 340:1801-1811 Number 23, 1999.
8) Estrogen Replacement Therapy and Cardiovascular Protection.
Gyno Endo 12(1):43-59; Feb 1998.
9) Relationship between Serum Estradiol Levels and the Increases in HDL Levels
in Postmenopausal Women Treated with Oral Estrogen.
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism Vol 84. No. 3 985-989
10) Effects of Estrogen Replacement Therapy on Endothelial Function in Peripheral Resistance Arteries
in Normotensive and Hypertensive Postmenopausal Women.
Hypertension 2001; 37:651
11) Regular Exercise, Hormone Replacement Therapy and the Age-related Decline in
Carotid Arterial Compliance in Healthy Women
Douglas R Seals MD
Cardiovascular Research 2003 57(3):861-868
12) Sex Hormones as Potential Modulators of Vascular Function in Hypertension
Raouf A Khalil MD, PhD
Hypertension 2005;46:249
13) Hormone Replacement Therapy Improves Arterial Stiffness in
Normotensive Postmenopausal Women
M Ohmichi MD
Maturitas 45 (4); 293-298. Aug 20, 2003
14) Angina and Cardiac Care: Are There Gender Differences, and If So, Why?
Viola Vaccarino, MD, PhD
Circulation. 2006;113:467-469.
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Lower Your Risk of Heart Attack by 92 percent
The dietary and lifestyle patterns of 24,444 postmenopausal women enrolled in a six year clinical trial were analyzed.
At the time, none of the women had heart disease, diabetes or cancer.
The women who combined a healthy diet: a high intake of vegetables, fruit, whole grains, fish, legumes
and moderate drinking (5 grams or less per day) with no smoking, being physically active and avoiding
too much weight gain (lifestyle factors) had a 92 percent lower risk of heart attack.
Archives of Internal Medicine, October 22, 2007.
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