HEALTH
REPORT - Cardiovascular Disease / Women
By Nancy Steinbach
The World Health Organization says that each year
almost seventeen-million people die of heart disease and stroke（突然发作）.
More than eight-million of them are women. In fact, heart attacks and
strokes cause two times as many deaths in women as all kinds of cancer
combined.
September 28 was World Heart Day. The W-H-O
used the event to release a report on a major worldwide study. The project
was called Monitoring Cardiovascular Disease（监控心血管疾病）,
or MONICA. The study took place from the middle of the 1980s to the
middle of the 90s. Teams in twenty-one countries measured levels of
heart disease, stroke and the risk factors that can lead to them in
different populations. The W-H-O says the information is important for
developing prevention policies and for demonstrating the value of new
treatments.
The World Heart Day observance this year centered
on women. A non-governmental organization in Geneva, the World Heart
Federation, says heart disease is the most serious health threat to
women. The federation represents more than one-hundred heart organizations
in ninety-seven countries.
It says many people believe that mainly men
have heart attacks and strokes. Executive Director Janet Voute says
this is only one of the false ideas people have. Another is that heart
attacks and strokes are diseases of rich countries. Mizz Voute says
eighty percent of heart attack and stroke deaths are in low and middle
income countries.
A third idea is that it is simply an old person's
disease. The director says this too is false. But she says people are
increasingly at risk of heart disease when they are older because of
how they lived when they were young. The federation says the major risk
factors for cardiovascular disease are smoking, high blood pressure,
high cholesterol（胆固醇）, diabetes�ㄌ悄虿。゛nd
high body weight.
The group says eighteen times more women die
from heart disease and strokes than from breast cancer. It says more
than half of female deaths and disability from heart disease and stroke
could be cut.
It says women would need to do things like quit
smoking, lose weight and get thirty minutes of exercise a day. The federation
says it is also important to avoid breathing other people's tobacco
smoke.
This VOA Special English Health Report was written
by Nancy Steinbach.
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