Task 4  Note-taking

        Listen to a passage “Heart Disease Prevention” twice. While listening, you are to take notes according to the cues given below.

1. What better knowledge should the public have to reduce deaths from heart disease?

About differences in heart disease between men and women. 

2. Which conditionis more likely to cause heart disease in women?

Microvascular disease. 

3. What do doctors use an angiogram to look for?

A buildup of fatty plaque materialthat can block arteries. 

4. How should people exercise to reduce risk for heart disease?

Exercise at least thirty minutes onmost days.

5. What should people reduce in their diets?

  The amount of salt and trans-fats.

Heart Disease Prevention

Heart disease is the world's leading cause of death. Yet most cases can be prevented. Doctors say reducing deaths from heart disease will require not only changes in the way people live. It will also require changes in public policy, and better public knowledge about differences in heart disease between men and women.

Two conditions, coronary artery disease and microvascular disease, can both reduce blood flow to the heart. Experts at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston say heart disease in women is more likely to be caused by microvascular disease.

Finding this condition may require tests other than an angiogram. An angiogram is a kind of X-ray test. Doctors use it to look for a buildup of fatty plaque material that can block arteries. Arteries carry oxygen-rich blood away from the heart to the rest of the body

Reducing risk means not smoking. It means controlling or avoiding diabetes. It also means keeping a healthy weight and eating healthy foods. And it means exercising at least thirty minutes on most days and managing or reducing stress.

Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian at the Harvard School of Public Health also has other advice about reducing the risk of heart attacks. He says people should eat more fish, whole grains, vegetables, vegetable oils and nuts, and reduce the amount of salt and trans-fats in their diets. Trans-fats can increase the risk of heart disease.