Brooklyn Queens Nursing Home Continues to Help Raise Awareness for Heart Disease on National Wear Red Day

Brooklyn, NY, February 15, 2015 --(PR.com)-- February 10th 2015, In support of National Wear Red Day, the nurses and staff at Brooklyn Queens Nursing Home came in wearing red shirts. National Wear Red day is a famous ongoing campaign to raise awareness for heart diseases. By wearing the color red it allows us to represent the color of love and the color of our hearts.

Cardiovascular diseases range from having a Congenital Heart Disease, a type of defect in one or more structures of the heart of blood vessels occurring before birth, to having a Heart Attack, where a coronary artery is suddenly blocked and stops the blood flow to the heart muscle, both of which are evidently frightening.

However, everyday there’s new technological innovation and research that help improve diagnoses, treatment, and care for such matters. Although doctors, researchers, and other professionals are all doing their best in helping us, we should also help ourselves and our communities.

While many people to this day still believe that a heart disease is a man’s disease, more women than men have died each year from cardiovascular problems. Heart diseases don’t discriminate between genders, age, or size. A heart attack or stroke can happen to anyone at any time and is the leading cause of death more so than cancer. The symptoms of heart disease can be different in women and men and are often misunderstood. In fact, many people are still unaware of the symptoms or think it may be something else.

One in every three women dies of a heart disease and stroke. Although sharp chest pains are usually associated with heart attacks this is not usually the case for women. Women may describe their chest pains as having some sort of pressure or tightness. At times, women might not even feel any chest pains at all, rather, they may have other symptoms unrelated to chest pains such as:

Neck, jaw, shoulder, upper back, or abdominal discomfort
Shortness of breath
Right arm pain
Nausea or vomiting
Lightheadedness or dizziness
Unusual fatigue

Women with Diabetes in particular have subtle symptoms and are more at risk of obtaining heart disease.

How much sleep, eat, exercise, and stress a person receives also determines different risk factors of heart diseases. Here are some tips for a healthy heart.

For Handling Stress:

Focus on one thing at a time
Take a break
Adjust expectations- set little goals that lead to the big goal

For Eating Healthy:

Use a food diary to help control portions
Eat 6 small meals instead of 3 big meals
Go for a walk with family or friends after a meal

For Exercising:

Walking
Bicycling
Swimming
Jogging
Yoga
Gardening
Exercise with Children

American Heart Month is one of the great ways to raise awareness about heart diseases of any kind. Help prevent it close to home and worldwide.

Brooklyn Queens Nursing Home is a premier 140-bed nursing and rehabilitation care center that provides comprehensive inpatient care to all its residents. Located at 2749 Linden Blvd, Brooklyn, NY 11208, Brooklyn Queens’s professional and compassionate staff provides around-the-clock medical and nursing care in a caring and comfortable environment that centers around its residents.

Brooklyn Queens offers outstanding short-term rehabilitation for individuals coming from an acute-care setting, as well as superior long-term care and hospice care. Brooklyn Queens Nursing Home has an exceptional staff of physical, occupational and speech therapists that carefully tailors unique recovery programs for each and every resident.

For more information on Brooklyn Queens Nursing Home, visiting hours or general inquiries, kindly contact Marty Dicker at 718.277.5100 or martybqctr@gmail.com.​