PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — For girls of all races and ages, the numbers present that coronary heart illness is the main reason behind demise.
Heart illness is very frequent amongst communities of colour.
Among Hispanic communities, specifically, girls develop coronary heart illness a full decade youthful than non-Hispanic girls.
Local Spotlight chats with Dr. Maribel Hernandez, a heart specialist at Lankenau Heart Institute, a part of Main Line Health, and medical director of the Women’s Heart Initiative.
She explains why it is so vital to learn about our cultural and private danger components for coronary heart illness, the way to proactively handle coronary heart illness danger, together with figuring out key coronary heart well being numbers, and what we are able to do to guard ourselves from coronary heart illness.
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