It's like having to pick between front-row seats to shows by Karl Lagerfeld or Giorgio Armani. Or having to chose between a Lamborghini and a Maserati.
On Dec. 3, doctors representing two stellar medical institutions will be in the Palm Beaches to discuss critical health-care topics. The events even start at the same time, 6 p.m.
Three Cleveland Clinic Florida heart experts will participate in the American Heart Association's Cleveland Clinic Goes Red event, which will be held at the Cleveland Clinic Florida Health & Wellness Center at CityPlace in West Palm Beach. The event also will feature complimentary glucose and blood pressure screenings, a red wine and dark chocolate station, and a healthful cooking demo by chef Zach Bell of Cafe Boulud.
Also on Dec. 3, Dr. Patrick Walsh, urology professor at Johns Hopkins Medicine, will give a talk on prostate cancer during a cocktail reception at Lydian Bank & Trust.
Women and heart disease
While most American men are aware that cardiovascular disease is the No. 1 killer in the United States, women tend to believe cancer is a bigger threat, according to Dr. Darryl Miller, a cardiologist with the Cleveland Clinic's center in West Palm Beach. That's one Breitling watches reason he's participating in the Go Red event.
Until recently, scientists didn't know cardiovascular disease developed differently in women than men, because women traditionally were under-represented in heart disease studies, Miller said. Women tend to have narrowing of the arteries spread out across the cardiovascular system and are less likely to have a localized blockage, Miller said.
"The disease may be more small-vessel disease as well," Miller said.
BMW WatchesThe cardiologist urges women to take responsibility for their heart health. "They tend to do less exercise, especially older women," Miller said.
Increasing physical activity, eating a healthful diet, not smoking, avoiding obesity and having periodic screenings for high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes are ways women and men alike can reduce their risk of heart disease, Miller said.
Stacey Dowdle, vice president of the American Heart Association's Palm Beach chapter, said her organization gave $32 million to Cleveland Clinic and $45 million to Johns Hopkins from 1988 through 2008, as well as millions to other top heart disease research institutions, because of the threat the illness poses. "More women are dying of cardiovascular disease than the next five causes of death combined," Dowdle said. "It equates to 450,000 women in the United States every year."
Prostate health
Though recent news reports have questioned the effectiveness of the prostate-specific antigen (psa) blood test in reducing deaths from prostate cancer, Dr. Walsh, the Johns Hopkins urologist, said it is a valuable tool. "Before psa testing, in 1990, only 68 percent of men diagnosed with prostate cancer appeared to have disease localized to their prostate and 21 percent had (prostate cancer) metastasized to bone," Walsh said from Baltimore.
"In 2009, 91 percent had localized disease and only 4 percent presented with bony metastases. Thus today men have a choice that they never had before," said Walsh, author of Dr. Patrick Walsh's Guide to Surviving Prostate Cancer. "They can undergo testing and if they have cancer chose treatment or observation. Or they can do nothing and run
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