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Michigan Heart Disease & Stroke Information provides heart and stroke news, videos, local events, and information. Services are provided by the Metro Detroit Heart Association, the CDC, HealthScout, and Healthology.

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TRAIN TO END STROKE
The Detroit Stroke Association is working to help the people in Detroit get more involved in their health by offering the Train To End Stroke program. This is a full or half running/walking marathon in which participants who achieve their fundraising goal will receive free personalized training and free travel to exciting destinations. Learn more...

HEART & STROKE EVENTS IN MICHIGAN
Name	Date	Location	Contact

Lansing Heart Walk	09-25-2004	Michigan State University	Jill Schumacher

2004 Metro Detroit Heart Walk	10-02-2004	Oakland University, Meadowbrook Music Festival	Beth Robertson

Designing Healthy Communities	11-08-2004	Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center	Diane Drago, Diversified Mgt Srvcs

Soul of the Heart - Messages of Heart Health, Healing and Wellness	11-13-2004	Greater Grace Temple	Toni Griggs Price or Maxine Ellison

Grand Rapids Go Red For Women Luncheon	02-10-2005	Prince Conference Center at Calvin College	Heather M. Chapp

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CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL
Facts About Stroke: Michigan
According to a February 2003 CDC publication entitled Atlas of Stroke Mortality: Racial, Ethnic, and Geographic Disparities in the United States, a total of 44,079 people (26,806 women and 17,273 men) ages 35 and older died from stroke during 1991–1998 in Michigan.

Facts About Heart Disease: Michigan
Overall, a total of 138,475 people in Michigan died from diseases of the heart during the years 1991–1995.

CDC's Cardiovascular Health Program
Heart disease and stroke are, respectively, the first and third leading causes of death in the United States. They are the principal causes of cardiovascular disease death and are also major causes of disability.
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HEALTHSCOUT : HEART DISEASE
Definition
This information item focuses upon heart disease resulting from atherosclerotic changes - the changes that occur because of the build up of plaques or fatty streaks on the interior walls of the blood vessels that supply oxygenated blood to the heart muscle. This is also known as coronary artery disease.

Description
The heart pumps your five quarts of blood around your body 500 times a day. When the arteries become clogged with deposits made up of "bad" cholesterol, plaque, scar tissue, or calcium, the heart has a harder time circulating blood. This clogging causes a myriad of heart problems from angina pectoris (chest pain) to heart failure to a heart attack...
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HEALTHSCOUT : STROKE
Definition
A stroke occurs when the arterial blood flow leading to or in the brain becomes blocked or ruptures. Blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the neurons (nerve cells) in the brain, so when the blood flow stops, the cells begin to die. As a result, the functions of the body controlled by the nerve cells can lose their ability to function.

Description
The specific abilities that will be lost or affected by the stroke depend on the extent of the cell death and where in the brain the stroke happened. The brain is divided into four primary parts: the right hemisphere, the left hemisphere, the cerebellum and the brain stem...
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