Heart Disease and Women.
Heart disease is not primarily "the Male" disease. Women can also die from related heart diseases such as Mrs. Mallard in "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. Heart disease and contributing risk factors such as smoking, diabetes, obesity, and high blood pressure can cause the following problems: atheroma, congestive heart failure, heart valve problems, and eventually she would have to have a heart transplant.
In the short story "The Story of an Hour," Kate Chopin writes about an older woman that has heart disease. Her sister told Mrs. Mallard, the older woman that her husband was on the manifest of a train that wrecked and everyone died. After she recovered from the news, she went downstairs to see her family. All of a sudden, there was a knock on the door, she opened the door and there stood her husband.
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Mrs. Mallard dying of a heart attack and one way to avoid that is to stop the controllable risk factors. Smoking is the biggest risk factor that she can control. Smoking takes a toll on women no matter what their age. Each time she inhales cigarette smoke, she is drawing a mixture of 4,000 chemical substances into her body. Cigarette smoke damages her heart in two ways. First, the toxic materials injure the walls of her coronary arteries and, in attempting to repair them; her body unknowingly creates conditions for fatty acids to develop. Second, tobacco smoke works independently to activate her body's blood clotting system, promoting clots that can block her arteries and cause a heart attack, (Pashkow and Libov 29).
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