Tonight's Homework:
Current Event on the article below:

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SCIENCE CURRENT EVENT

I.      Giving Credit for Another’s Work: Use a science news article from the past 3 months in a  newspaper, magazine or on the internet.  Staple the article behind this page.

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II.             Vocabulary: Find 3 words that you do not know or that are important to the article.  Circle the words in the article.  Use a dictionary to Define them below:

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III.          Write a summary of the article in your own words.  A summary is:

s a short statement
s about something you’ve read
s that focuses on a main idea, and
s strengthens it with supporting details
s not simply repeating the material you’ve read (Use your own words).

Summarize the attached article in 3 (or more) complete sentences, one on each of the lines numbered below.

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2014/10/04/womens-heart-health/16538989/

Women Can Improve Their Odds Against Heart Disease

Peggy J. Noonan, USA TODAY, October 4, 2014
(edited for brevity and emphasis by Mr. Goldsmith)

"Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women and is more deadly than all forms of cancer combined," says Dr. Jennifer H. Mieres, professor of cardiology… spokesperson for the American Heart Association's Go Red For Women campaign.

Heart disease causes one in three women's deaths, killing approximately one woman every minute, according to the American Heart Association (AHA). An estimated 43 million women in the U.S. are affected by heart disease. Ninety percent of us have one or more heart disease risk factors.

Scary? Sure. But there's good news, too. Eighty percent of heart disease and stroke can be prevented by controlling risk factors, says the heart association.

Better still, the things we can do to prevent heart disease may also help prevent some cancers — and at the same time improve health overall, says heart disease survivor Charlotte Libov, founder of National Women's Heart Health Day (Feb. 1) and author of books, including A Woman's Guide to Heart Attack …..

In the last 10 years, since the Go Red For Women movement began raising women's awareness of heart disease, there's been a 34 percent decrease in deaths. More than 627,000 women's lives have been saved from cardiovascular diseases, says the AHA. That's 330 lives saved per day.

Researchers have learned that smoking, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, a sedentary lifestyle, and obesity are risk factors for both sexes, but [the last 3] are more potent risks in women, Mieres says. …[Also] pregnancy complications and pre-term births - are "sex specific," or unique to women.……The latest research shows women …. who get less than six hours of sleep a night have higher heart disease risk. Depression doubles the risk of heart attack, death or need for an artery-opening procedure in women age 55 and younger.

To stay on top of your heart health, know your target numbers, says Libov. Make sure your blood pressure and cholesterol fall within normal range, and keep a close eye on triglycerides. "….Also, find out about your family history, which accounts for about 20 percent of heart disease risk. If a family member had a heart attack, stroke, bypass, stent or other major heart problem or procedure, your risk may be higher.

Treatments can help you recover if you have a heart attack, but once a heart attack has happened,we can't regenerate the muscle that's been damaged.  Not long ago, heart disease was considered “a man's disease”.  We just didn't think younger women could get sick with heart disease but I think now the medical community is much more aware.