Love Your Heart !!

Scroll down for your dose of love!

Ladies RED ALERT !

Please sit up pay attention !!!!

Facts

• Heart disease kills about six times as many women in Singapore as breast cancer.

• Women more likely to dismiss heart attack symptoms.

• It could be they do not know what the symptoms are

Negative message - Short changing yourself

• Women tend to wait longer before calling 999 after first experiencing heart attack symptoms.

• That delay can dramatically reduce your chance of survival.

Positive message - Put Yourself First

• If you think you have a heart attack drop whatever you are doing and call immediately for medical assistance

• Everything else can wait. Damage to your heart cannot wait

• Never drive yourself to the clinic or hospital. Call for an ambulance

Symptoms more commonly seen in women can include

• 😣 Chest pain that suddenly occurs

• 😣 Shortness of breath ,

• 😣 Jaw pain ,

• 😣 Back pain ,

• 😣 Sweaty ,

• 😣 Urge to vomit ,

• 😣 Feeling faint

Find out more details about symptoms from your own doctor

By educating yourself you can save your own life!

Help yourself to improve heart health

• 🙂 Exercise

• 🙂 Stress management

• 🙂 Sensible eating

Louisaz says heart attack is not just a “man’s disease.”

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On a Cheerful note Happy Valentine’s Day ! 💖

Cherubic cupid shoots and Love is in the air!

• Singles - Your soulmate is just round the corner

• Married - Renew marriage vows. Your own kids shower you with love and filial piety!

• Newly Married - The stork will visit

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References

1. Women are dying unnecessarily from heart attacks British Heart Foundation leading health charity says September 30, 2019

2. https://www.myheart.org.sg › my-heart › women-and-heart-disease – Singapore Heart Foundation