The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital
Winter 1993
Figuring the Fat Cleft Palate Clinic Kids and Hospitals
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Lowering Your Risk
It can start with an uncomfortable pain or squeezing in your chest. The pain may radiate to your
shoulders, neck, jaw or arm. You begin to sweat.
You're short of breath and feel faint.
It could be a heart attack.
Coronary heart disease,
primarily heart attacks,
accounts for 600,000 deaths
every year - that's about
one in every three deaths.
Despite a decrease in death
rates in the past two
decades, coronary heart disease still reigns as the No. 1
killer in our country.
Atherosclerosis, a slow buildup of
cholesterol and fatty tissue in the arteries, is the primary cause of heart attacks. You may not
even know it's happening until blood flow is restricted
\s gjiP
of Heart Attack
or cut off, usually by a clot forming in a
diseased artery, according to Henry Smith
III, MD, a Greensboro cardiologist.
Many risk factors can be controlled
through lifestyle changes. You're at risk if
you smoke, have high blood pressure or
high cholesterol, rarely exercise or are often
stressed. (See the chart on page 2 that lists
risk reductions in changing behaviors.)
Combinations of these risk factors can
also be unhealthy. Women who smoke
heavily and use oral contraceptives
have 39 times the risk of women who
do neither.
Other risk factors - - the male sex,
a family history of heart disease and
aging - - are important in determining
who's at risk for heart disease but are not
under our control.
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The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital
Winter 1993
Figuring the Fat Cleft Palate Clinic Kids and Hospitals
page 3
page 4
page ^
Lowering Your Risk
It can start with an uncomfortable pain or squeezing in your chest. The pain may radiate to your
shoulders, neck, jaw or arm. You begin to sweat.
You're short of breath and feel faint.
It could be a heart attack.
Coronary heart disease,
primarily heart attacks,
accounts for 600,000 deaths
every year - that's about
one in every three deaths.
Despite a decrease in death
rates in the past two
decades, coronary heart disease still reigns as the No. 1
killer in our country.
Atherosclerosis, a slow buildup of
cholesterol and fatty tissue in the arteries, is the primary cause of heart attacks. You may not
even know it's happening until blood flow is restricted
\s gjiP
of Heart Attack
or cut off, usually by a clot forming in a
diseased artery, according to Henry Smith
III, MD, a Greensboro cardiologist.
Many risk factors can be controlled
through lifestyle changes. You're at risk if
you smoke, have high blood pressure or
high cholesterol, rarely exercise or are often
stressed. (See the chart on page 2 that lists
risk reductions in changing behaviors.)
Combinations of these risk factors can
also be unhealthy. Women who smoke
heavily and use oral contraceptives
have 39 times the risk of women who
do neither.
Other risk factors - - the male sex,
a family history of heart disease and
aging - - are important in determining
who's at risk for heart disease but are not
under our control.
(Continued on next page)
