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Diet, avoidance of smoking are primary ways for women to prevent heart disease.
2004 APR 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Women who consume "heart-healthy" diets and avoid smoking have the greatest opportunity to prevent heart disease according to results from the Framingham Nutrition Study.
"We found that lower-fat diets rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and low fat-dairy foods in combination with the avoidance of smoking significantly reduce a woman's likelihood of having early evidence of cardiovascular disease," said Paula A. Quatromoni, DSc, MS, RD, coauthor of the study and assistant professor of nutrition at Boston University's Sargent College.
Among 1423 women who were free of heart disease at the beginning of the study, Quatromoni and her colleagues found that those who ate heart-healthy diets and who had never smoked had the lowest odds of subclinical heart disease, measured as carotid artery "stiffness" 12 years later. These women were 80% less likely to have early signs of heart disease compared to women who smoked and ate diets that were markedly divergent from current dietary guidelines. Even among smokers, women who ate more heart healthy diets ...
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