Like most women, I tend to downplay personal medical issues. It´s just much more important to tend to our families than to address what could be our own serious health conditions.

The Center for Women´s Heart Health

The Men's Heart Center now open. Call 201-447-8207 for a free screening.
To raise awareness of the cause, symptoms and prevalence of heart disease in women, The Valley Hospital has established The Center for Women´s Heart Health. The goal of the center is to educate women on preventing, diagnosing and treating heart disease in women.
Please click here to see a video from WCBS News radio Reporter Pat Farnack and her recent visit to the Center for Women's Heart Health.

Heart Risk Assessment

The Center offers a comprehensive Heart Risk Assessment for women. Call 201-447-8125 for more information or to make an appointment. The assessment is conducted by Advanced Practice Nurse Denise Goldstein, N.P., and it includes:

A medical history
Blood pressure screening
Heart auscultation measurements, including heart rate, rhythm, and presence of murmur
Lung auscultation measurements
Pulse assessments including carotid and peripheral pulses
Blood glucose monitoring
Limited neurological assessment
Ankle-brachial index
Reynold´s Risk Score

Advanced Practice
Nurse Denise Goldstein,
N.P., conducts
heart risk appraisals at the
Center for Women´s
Heart Health. Call her
today at 201-447-8125

Risk factors for heart disease
in women include:

Age (55 years or older)
Family history of early heart disease (father or brother affected before age 55, mother or sister affected before age 65)
High blood cholesterol (high total cholesterol and high LDL, or “bad,” cholesterol)
Low HDL (“good”) cholesterol
Smoking
High blood pressure
Diabetes: If you have diabetes, your risk for developing heart disease is high, as high as a heart disease patient’s risk for having a heart attack.
Obesity/being overweight
Physical inactivity

Fast Facts

Heart disease is the number one killer of women over the age of 25
One in every three women dies of heart disease. One in 30 dies of breast cancer.
Nearly two-thirds of American women who dies suddenly of a heart attack had no prior symptoms.
Americans can lower their risk of heart disease by as much as 82 percent just by leading a healthy lifestyle.
50 million Americans have metabolic syndrome putting them at an increased risk for diabetes and heart disease.

Let Us Speak to Your Group

Representatives of the Center for Women's Heart Health are available to speak to community and civic groups. There is no charge. Let us share with you ways of living heart-healthy. Call 201-447-8125