Vascular Disease: What Women Need To Know

BRIDGEPORT — “Women at Heart” at Bridgeport’s Regina L. Cozza Center is sponsoring a free talk open to members and nonmembers titled, “Vascular Disease: What Women Need to Know,” as part of its 2007 Lecture Series. The program will take place Wednesday, April 18, from 6 to 7:30 pm, in the Education and Training Center at St Vincent’s Medical Center.

Featured speaker Jared Selter, MD, will explain the risk factors, warning signs, and prevention methods associated with vascular disease, and its role in varicose veins, lymphedema, renal failure, strokes, aneurysms, and heart attacks. He will identify the latest treatment options available and any concerns with the use of hormone replacement therapy and vascular disease. Vascular disease is the leading cause of death among women age 65 and older.

Women are four to six times more likely to die of vascular disease than breast cancer, and more women die of vascular disease than all types of cancer combined.

Dr Selter conducts practices in Fairfield and Trumbull, and serves on active staff at St Vincent’s Regional Heart and Vascular Center where he specializes in coronary and peripheral arterial interventions, nuclear cardiology, echocardiography and cardiopulmonary interventions. He is Board Certified in internal medicine, nuclear cardiology, and cardiovascular diseases.

Dr Selter received a postdoctoral fellowship in cardiology as well as endovascular and coronary interventions, after completing an internship and residency in internal medicine and serving as an associate research scientist in the Department of Medicine at Yale. He graduated Magna cum Laude from Union College and earned a Doctorate of Medicine from Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

A question and answer session will follow his presentation, and light refreshments will be provided.

St Vincent’s Women at Heart is a cardiovascular club created exclusively for women of all ages designed to provide a holistic, woman-specific program of education and cardiovascular screening. The Women at Heart club helps women lower their risk with discounted cardiovascular screenings, nutrition counseling, stress reduction sessions, educational heart health lectures, seminars, and the Heart Healthy Cookbook and Calendar.

Prevention opportunities and information about the latest treatments and research findings are also provided. Membership to Women at Heart is free, although reservations are required to attend the lectures. Call the St Vincent’s care line at 877-255-SVHS (7847) for more information.