The Center for Women's Health - Patient Resources

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Women’s Cardiovascular Medicine Program - Advocacy, Outreach and Useful Resources

The Center for Women’s Health program in cardiovascular disease was developed in response to the lack of awareness and recognition by women and health care providers that heart disease is the leading killer of women. The program underscores: patient care, education, research and advocacy. There are a number of external links providing educational resources.

Current Concept:

Heart Disease in Women

Resources within the Medical Center:

New York-Presbyterian the Hospital of Columbia and Cornell
http://www.nyp.org/

Columbia University
http://www.columbia.edu

Columbia University Medical Center
http://cumc.columbia.edu/

“Be Fit to Be’ne’Fit
http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/befittobenefit/index.html

Research Links Depression to Cardiac Death In Women Who Show No Signs of Prior Heart Disease

http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/news/press_releases/090309WhangHeart.html

External Links

American Heart Association
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=1200000

GoRed for Women

http://www.goredforwomen.org/

Office of Women’s Health Research (National Institutes of Health)
http://orwh.od.nih.gov/

Society for Women’s Health Research
http://www.womens-health.org/

The Heart Truth (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/hearttruth/

Women Heart-The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease
http://www.womenheart.org/

Women’s Heart Health Education Initiative
http://hp2010.nhlbihin.net/womencvd/

Promise Love Your Heart
http://www.promisehealthyheart.com/tools_heart_age.asp

Chapter 7 The Heart and Circulation in WOMEN'S HEALTH FOR LIFE (DK Publishing, London and New York, 2009)

Chapter 7 written by Elsa-Grace Giardina MD, in collaboration with top women’s health experts from the United States and Great Britain, Women's Health for Life covers important women’s health topics from menarche to menopause, headaches to heart disease, and contraception to cancer, this highly illustrated hardcover edition is a valuable home reference for all women.

Women's Health for Life