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...smaller vessels--behave differently in women. Unlike men, women tend to distribute all the "garbage" associated with atherosclerosis--such as saturated fat and oxidized waste products--more evenly throughout the arteries. The process is analogous to the way men and women gain weight, says Dr. Noel Bairey Merz of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. "When men get fat, it all goes to their belly," she says. "When women get fat, they tend to get fat all over--fat at the ankles, fat in the sides, fat in the upper arms." So although women generally avoid the monster...
Truth is, the classic heart attack made famous onstage and onscreen, where you clutch your chest and fall to the ground, doesn't tell the whole story. "Half the time women don't do that," says Cedars-Sinai's Bairey Merz. "But 40% of the time, men don't have a typical heart attack either." Men, however, have been conditioned for decades to suspect that they might be suffering a heart attack even when they feel perfectly healthy. So while women are more likely to experience the prelude to an attack as shortness of breath, extreme fatigue or a feeling...
...study, short for Women's Ischemic Syndrome Evaluation. Data from WISE suggest that false positives in women may be not so much an error as an early warning of a problem, perhaps in the smaller blood vessels, that could become significant in 20 to 30 years, according to Bairey Merz...
...toughest opponent for the U.S. Olympic team during its first three games was not a player on the ice, but a flu bug that hit the team. The illness knocked U.S. defenseman Sue Merz out of Saturday’s game, and struck Ruggiero for a day, but she was back in time to provide the U.S. with two critical setups against Finland...
...yoga during recovery. At Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, cardiac doctors suggest that their patients enroll in the hospital's Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center, which offers yoga, among other therapies. "While we haven't tested yoga as a stand-alone therapy," says Dr. Noel Bairey Merz, the center's director, patients opting for yoga do show "tremendous benefits." These include lower cholesterol levels and blood pressure, increased cardiovascular circulation and, as the Ornish study showed, reversal of artery blockage in some cases...