Go Red For Women, the American Heart Association’s (AHA) national public-awareness campaign, aims to help women learn that heart disease is their leading cause of death—a fact most women still do not take to heart.
Heart disease and stroke are the number 1 and number 3 killers of American and New Jersey women, respectively, with cardiovascular disease claiming the lives of more than 460,000 women every year.
In keeping with the AHA’s effort to help women learn to protect themselves against heart disease, physicians at the Cooper Heart Institute remind you that better food habits can help to reduce one of the major risk factors for heart attack—high blood cholesterol.
A good way to help lower your blood cholesterol level is to eat less saturated fat, trans fat and cholesterol, and to control your weight. Cooper cardiologists offer these tips: Read the full story
