Super Basic Heart Health Quiz for Professional Women
Professional women are especially in need of having their awareness raised on the importance of caring for their hearts, as heart disease is the number one cause of dealth to women, and professional women balance unique work-life issues and deal with enormous amounts of stress daily. Brighten your heart by taking a moment and letting yourself do this quick little 5-question care-for-your-heart self-quiz, and and then if it raises your awareness, go ahead and pass it along!
Answer the following questions True or False (T or F) as of one year ago.
1. ___I know my blood pressure.
2. ___I know my cholesterol.
3. ___I know my LDL.
4. ___I know my HDL.
5. ___I know my triglycerides.
Bonus___I know that drinking more than 2 diet sodas a day is not healthy.
Scoring:
Give yourself one point for every question that you answered "True."
1 = Not good enough, but glad you knew one of them. As you can see, the very basics of heart health start with knowing all of these numbers. Read last week’s article, Heart Health for Professional Women: Cholesterol, and make an appointment with your doctor.
2-4 = So-so. You still need to take better care of yourself. You need to know all of the above numbers, read last week’s article on Heart Health for Professional Women: Cholesterol, and make an appointment with your doctor.
5-6 = Good, however stay up to date with your check-ups.
Next week we’ll discuss blood sugar and then have a quiz on that.
Written originally for w2wlink.com by Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, www.forwomenshearts.com.
Suzanne Steinbaum,
is director, Women and Heart Disease, Heart and Vascular Institute, at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. She is often cited in magazines and newspapers and has done network news health segments for ABC, NBC and CBS as a leading consultant in the field of women and heart disease, preventive cardiology and cardiac rehabilitation. She has been featured on the Discovery Health Channel's "Health Cops," a show dedicated to risk factor modification in young people at risk for developing heart disease. Suzanne has been the resident physician on "The Apprentice." She has written on topics of cardiac prevention and nutrition has been quoted in many publications. She is, as of January 2008, the Kellogg’s Healthy Start Program on Heart disease Awareness spokeswoman. For more information see: www.forwomenshearts.com.