In a welcoming revelation, death rate in women due to heart diseases has been found drooping down but unfortunately, rise in obesity has also been found peeping out. Here is a look at the main facts that came up during the study:-
Negative points:-
1. A sudden rise in obesity has been noticed.
2. More than 654,000 Americans died from coronary heart disease in 2004, making it the leading cause of death in both women and men.
3. In 2003, about 7,017 of every 100,000 women over 45 died from coronary heart disease.
Positive points:-
1. Awareness about heart disease has increased.
2. Where only 34% of the women knew about heart diseases but in the year of 2005, 55% of the women were found with heart disease awareness.
3. Improved drug treatment and diagnostic technology in hospitals have been attributed behind this decline.
4. Wider use of drugs that lower blood pressure and cholesterol are also credited with preventing a growing number of deaths.
5. Smoking — a key risk factor for heart disease — has dropped by almost half among women over the last four decades.
6. The number of American women with heart disease has come down in 2004, continuing a trend seen since 2000.
A cursory glance at these facts makes the point clear that better health care had the upper hand during the period, tracked by this study. However, rise in obesity was also been found emulating with this good trend.
It is good that awareness among women about heart diseases has increased and better health services and advanced diagnostic technology has further joined it. However, we can’t keep a blind eye to the fact that rate of obesity among women has also soared higher, which points to a serious threat as obesity usually doesn’t come alone but several other health disorders like diabetes, depression, increased cholesterol level, cardiovascular diseases, etc. also come flocking with it and in the following words same fear seems to be lying
‘at the same time, rising obesity rates and other worrisome health trends threaten to undo recent progress against heart disease.
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Via: Webmd