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According regardinghealth.com, “the American Heart Association (AHA) has issued new guidelines for women’s heart health that are based on individual risk levels. Heart disease is no longer perceived as a “have-or-have-not” condition. Instead, women fall somewhere on a spectrum from low risk to high risk.

Different Approaches to Heart Health The AHA looked at 7,000 studies on heart disease, the number-one killer of women in America. The organization found that different women should use different strategies to prevent heart disease.

For example: * Women with low risk of heart disease should limit saturated fats to less than 10% of calories. In high-risk women, saturated fat intake should be less than 7% of calories.

* Women with diabetes are at a high risk for heart disease and should keep their blood sugar under control.

* Women who have a low risk for heart disease should avoid taking a daily aspirin.

The reason? Aspirin can cause bleeding in the brain or gastric tract, a risk that outweighs the benefits for women with healthy hearts. Keeping Your Heart Healthy For those women at a high risk for heart disease, they may need to take drugs that lower cholesterol and reduce blood pressure.”

My ex-boyfriend is an anesthesiologist. He takes aspirin every morning. He told me that aspirin would lower risk for heart disease.

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