heart disease
...eart Association, “In 2001, their death rate from coronary heart disease was 176.7 compared to 137.4 of white women” (www.americanheart.org). Statistics like this indicate that heart-health education and coronary disease prevention among African-American women is vital. Moreover, the American Heart Association is making their ability to provide health education to high-risk people a top priority. Nevertheless, new experimental treatments are being tested, such as injecting healthy muscle cells into a failing heart; using stem cells to grow new heart cells. Soon, there will be drugs available with multiple functions to improve the hearts pumping ability, to unclog arteries, or prevent tissue damage from free radicals that can cause cellular damage. Also, alternative surgical techniques are being explored which involves less harmful small incisions on the left-hand side of the chest, and can be used to bypass vessels. Like...