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This Friday, red eyesight against heart disease in women

This Friday, red eyesight against heart disease in women

To alert the female population to the risks of cardiovascular disease and to stimulate preventive care, an international campaign is urging people to wear red on Friday (07/02). The Go Red for Women campaign is headed by the American Heart Association since 2004, and now comes to Brazil. The campaign began with the realization that more than 500,000 women died every year in the United States for heart disease, surpassing the number of men killed for the same cause. Until the early 1980s, they were the majority, but they started to prevent and treat themselves more. This is currently the leading cause of death for women. Of the three women who die, one suffers from cardiovascular disease.

The number of deaths after a first infarction is 38% for women, compared to 25% for men. Sudden deaths without symptoms from heart disease also occur more in women (65%) than in men (50%). And within six years of a first stroke, women are even more likely to have another heart attack (35% vs. 18% of men), suffer a stroke (11% vs. 8%), or become incapacitated with heart failure ( 46% versus 22%).

Cardiovascular disease risks are highest in women over 55 years of age at the onset of menopause or above 45 years with early menopause. The factors that lead to these risks are a sedentary lifestyle, obesity and stress (which favor the emergence of high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol), as well as family history in similar cases.


Chemicals can contribute to weight gain

Chemicals can contribute to weight gain

Have you ever heard of endocrine disrupters (ED) or endocrine disrupters? These chemicals are able to exert similar effect to the hormones present in our body. Or they can act by inhibiting the action of a certain hormone in our body. They are present in our day-to-day life without us noticing: in the air we breathe, in beauty products and personal hygiene, in electronics, in the furniture that adorns the apartments, in plastic containers etc.

(Health)

Vaccine against zika virus should be tested in humans in two months

Vaccine against zika virus should be tested in humans in two months

Last Monday (19), the director of the Butantan Institute, Jorge Kalil, announced that the institution expects in two months to test in humans the vaccine against the zika virus. The vaccine is the result of a partnership with an American institute, which uses a small fragment of DNA, synthetically produced in laboratories, capable of encoding a virus protein, generating an immune response of the organism.

(Health)