With heart-health month on the horizon, we’re shining a light on that topic (and hence my different editor’s pic!). Our in-depth report by Angela Kennedy (page 50) titled The Gender Heart Health Gap rather scarily highlights how coronary heart disease was the biggest killer of women worldwide in 2019, and in the UK it kills more than twice as many women each year as breast cancer –and yet we hear so much about breast cancer and barely anything on heart disease. The report also says that when women are admitted to hospital with a heart attack, they are 50 per cent more likely than men to receive an incorrect initial diagnosis, resulting in the wrong treatment. I’ll let you read it for yourself, but rest assured there are helpful lifestyle tips at the end we can all heed.
And though in my Katy Peri column (page 98) I’m banging on about brain health and dementia, heart health is a more immediate worry since having developed an arrhythmia, which seems to be getting worse. Not only does my heart “flutter” like mad sometimes, often when laying down, but it’ll pump extra hard every five or six beats, even when I’m at rest. Ithink stress makes it worse so I plan to visit a clinic where they do a full heart-health MOT (follow me at instagram.com/thehealtheditor where I’ll post about it).
February is also Valentine’s, which some love, some loathe, hence our feature onyoga moves to help heal your heart (page 58), which are beneficial regardless of relationship status! And with Christmas just gone, weight loss is topical, so Alice Dogruyol visits some holistic coaches for advice and motivation (page 32), while Dr Ali Novitsky looks at new ways to lose weight this year (page 38). And Idiscovered ak
