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Women's health month - Why females need cover

"Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater"
- Mary Manin Morrissey

Source: http://www.familyhealthdiary.co.nz/conditions/womens-health-checklist

Did you know?

Cancer:

Today, 7 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer
This year, 650 will most likely die
Yet 30% of eligible women don't have regular mammograms
And 60% of young women don't know the signs beyond a lump
(Source: www.nzbcf.org.nz)

Women's Heart Disease:

Worldwide, 3.4 million women die from heart disease each year, accounting for a third of all deaths in women
The picture of women’s heart health in New Zealand:
- 2514 women died of heart disease
  (Source: 2010 Ministry of Health Mortality Data)
- That’s about 7 a day – 48 a week
- Women who smoke risk having a heart attack 19 years earlier than non-smoking women
- Nearly two-thirds of the deaths from heart attacks in women occur among those who have no history of chest pain
- 42% of women who have heart attacks die within 1 year, compared to 24% of men
- Under age 50, women’s heart attacks are twice as likely as men’s to be fatal

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