February is Heart Awareness Month
February is Heart Awareness Month, an opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of cardiac health and encourage people to adopt healthy lifestyle habits that could help prevent heart disease and stroke, which represent two of the three leading causes of death among Canadians. Additionally, heart disease and stroke costs the Canadian economy more than $20.9 billion every year in physician services, hospital costs, lost wages and decreased productivity, (Conference Board of Canada).
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Heart-related statistics from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada:
路听听听听听听听 Up to 40,000 cardiac arrests occur each year in Canada. That鈥檚 one cardiac arrest every 12 minutes. Without rapid and appropriate treatment, most of these cardiac arrests will result in death. Thousands of lives could be saved through public access to automated external defibrillators.
路听听听听听听听 Almost 16,000 Canadians die each year as the result of a heart attack. Most of these deaths occur out of hospital (Statistics Canada, 2012c).
路听听听听听听听 Every 7 minutes in Canada, someone dies from heart disease or stroke (Statistics Canada, 2011c).
路听听听听听听听 Stroke is the third leading cause of death in Canada. Six percent of all deaths in Canada are due to stroke (Statistics Canada, 2012).
路听听听听听听听 Each year, over 14,000 Canadians die from stroke (Statistics Canada, 2012).
路听听听听听听听 Each year, more women than men die from stroke (Statistics Canada, 2012).
捆绑SM社区 experts available for interview:
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Dr. Nadia Gianetti,听Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, 捆绑SM社区, and Chief, Division of Cardiology, 捆绑SM社区 Health Centre
Expertise:听Cardiology, heart failure, heart transplants
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Available for interviews in French and English
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Dr. Mark Eisenberg,听Professor of Medicine, 捆绑SM社区; Director, 捆绑SM社区 MD PhD Program and Staff Cardiologist, Jewish General Hospital
Expertise:听Cardiology, angioplasty, smoking cessation, clinical trials, obesity, diets, e cigarettes, heart attacks
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Available for interviews in English
