It's Heart Safety Awareness Month

Dear Friends:

February is heart month bringing “Matters of the Heart” to everyone’s mind.
And so they should be since over 250,000 American women die every year from
heart disease. On Tuesday February 7, 2012, 7-8:30 p.m in the Wilton Library
Brubeck Room, WomenHeart, the National coalition of women with heart
disease, the Wilton Library, and the Ridgefield VNA are cooperating to
present a free forum on women and heart disease that every woman regardless
of age and everyone with a woman in their life should attend.

Program panel of experts include Dr. Michael L. Dewar, Cardio-thoracic
surgeon and clinical professor of cardiac surgery at Yale University School
of Medicine, Dr. Brian Pollack, Cardiologist with Cardiac Specialists, PC
and affiliated with the Western Connecticut Health Network, Emelie Howard,
CT Coordinator for WomenHeart, author and leader of a women¹s heart support
group for Westchester and Fairfield Counties, Ann Waldman, nurse and
champion of WomenHeart moderated by Theresa Santoro, CEO and President of
the RVNA.

Heart Healthy Snacks and free blood pressure screenings available from 6 to
7pm prior to the forum, courtesy of the Greens of Cannondale, an assisted
living community, and the  Space is limited so advance
registration is recommended--log on to www.wiltonlibrary.org
http://www.wiltonlibrary.org or call 203-762-3950, Ext. 213.
Forty two Million women are living with the disease or are at risk right
now.  It is the No. 1 killer of women and WomenHeart, is active here in the
tri-state area with regular support groups and special lectures and outreach
programs every day of the year.

As Professor Henry Higgins sang in My Fair Lady, “Why Can't a Woman Be More
Like a Man?”  Well, they can't and they’re not; more women than men die of
heart disease each year and the age of the initial attack is getting younger
and younger.  In addition, women’s hearts are generally a bit smaller, their
arteries a bit narrower, their reaction to medication a bit different, and
when in the throws of a heart attack, their symptoms are frequently quite
different causing confusion for them and their medical professionals.  You
can¹t afford to miss this very important event! Your life or the life of
someone you love may be at risk!

Free cholesterol screenings offered next day, February 8th, at the Wilton Y
from 8am-10 a.m., courtesy of the RVNA. Please call RVNA at 203-438-5555 Ext
1005 to reserve your place by Feb 1st. Free “Try the Y” passes available to
all participants from the Wilton Family Y.

-Nancy Capelle