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HEART TO HEART Over the last few months, as people all over the world were stricken with worry over the imminent threat of COVID-19 and media reports from hospitals focused almost exclusively on infectious disease departments, other hospital wards were full of patients fighting the diseases which, regrettably, continue to haunt us as the most common causes of death: the cardiovascular diseases. In Poland, in the male population, cardio vascular diseases (CVDs) are still a top cause of death among men aged 45+, and the share of CVD-related deaths goes up systematically with age.1 Among women aged 80+, CVDs are the most common cause of death, accounting for 59 percent of all deaths. Such distribution of deaths by main groups of causes in Poland has not changed for years. Statistically, one in four people killed by a heart attack die before they are taken to hospital. Why is that? Because they https://www.mp.pl/pacjent/chorobawiencowa/ aktualnosci/217765,zadbaj-o-swoje-serce 2017 report.
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waited too long before they decided to seek help. In Poland, about 2.5 hours pass between the first symptoms of the heart attack and medical aid. For comparison: on average, it takes about an hour for an ambulance to bring a heart attack patient to hospital. Sadly, the number of heart attack cases in Poland increased by 8% in the last five years, and men outnumber women in the statistics.
infarction are less frequent in young (under 55 years of age) and very young women (under 40 years of age), as compared to men of the same age. Unfortunately, women often suffer from other cardiovascular problems, for example a stroke, which is reported every 8 seconds, on average, in Poland.2
In the case of a hemorrhagic stroke, mortality rate is as high as 50 percent. Women are naturally equipped with In the case of an ischaemic stroke the hormones that protect them from (80% of all stroke cases), 45 percent heart attacks – the estrogens. That of the patients have a disability and need is the reason why atherosclerosis assistance in the activities of daily living. of the coronary arteries and myocardial 2 https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=6Wrb4q57ElY
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