Apogee Communications Group Release Heart Disease & Women DVD

Boulder, CO (PRWeb) February 14, 2007 -- Apogee Communications Group has released a two-part educational documentary DVD titled Heart Disease & Women - Awareness & Treatment. According to the American Heart Association, Cardiovascular Diseases effect more than 42.1 million American women. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for American women ahead of cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes, and accidents combined. One in three women will eventually die of heart disease or stroke. The program presents a series of impacting interviews with cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons, cardiac catheterization lab staff and heart attack survivors, all of whom have directly saved a life or had their life saved. The heart attack survivors share their stores about family history, symptoms, diagnosis, denial, and treatment. The importance of early detection of heart disease is stressed by both doctors and heart attack survivors. Sixty four percent of women who die suddenly of heart disease had no previous symptoms, according to American Heart Association.

Heart attack survivor Jan Snooks said, "because I lead a healthily lifestyle, I thought I would never have to deal with a heart attack. I ate right, I excised, I am active, educated and had everything going for me." Snooks added, "when I had my heart attack I didn't know any women around my age that had heart disease. We were all concerned with breast cancer." Snooks is not alone. In a AHA study, only 13 percent of American women believe that heart disease and stroke are the greatest threat to women. Many of the women interviewed in the program had different signs and symptoms of their heart attack. The heart attack survivors interviewed in the program had few clues they had heart disease.

Prevention, detection and treating heart disease from a women's point of view are covered in the documentary. Dr. Nelson Trujillo, an interventional cardiologist, said, "if we could identify those people when they were at their earliest stages of heart disease and offer them treatment, we may be able to impact their long term survival and quality of life." Trujillo added, "We now have treatment options that will prevent the natural progression of heart disease. Treatment may be as simple as losing weight, changing their diet and exercising."

The DVD was produced by award winning Director of Photography Arthur Levy. "The program is designed to give a women insight into heart disease from those who treat the disease to the survivors of heart attacks. The goal of the program is to give women information to allow them to ask their health care provider questions about screening and treating heart disease by being more informed." The program also follows a women having a heart attack on camera in an emergency room to the cardiac catheterization lab where her arteries were opened by angioplasty. The viewer is taken into the cath lab as the procedure opened the women's arteries with a drug coated stent. A special "From the Heart" section is included at the end of the DVD that gives words of wisdom from both heart attack survivors and the medical professionals who provide treatment for cardiac patients.

Heart Disease & Women- Awareness & Treatment has won 6 awards including a Gold Remi Award from Worldfest Houston, two Gold Aurora Awards, a Videographer Award, and a Telly Award. The program has received "Highly Recommended" reviews from the journal of the American Library Association, Booklist, and from Video Librarian. The DVD is available in public and school libraries, on the Internet, in hospitals, cardiologist offices, and directly from Apogee Communications Group.

About Apogee Communications Group

Apogee Communications Group is a professional video production company. The company's founder, Arthur Levy, has been a photojournalist for ABC, CBS, NBC News, Paramount Pictures, Discovery Channel, and has traveled throughout North American filming events such as Mt. St. Helen's, presidential primaries, exclusive coverage of the second artificial heart transplant, medical series. Levy's work has appeared on 60 Minutes, 20/20, Health Maters, Dr. Phil and the Today Show. Apogee Communications Group has produced corporate videos for such clients as Space Imaging, The Smithsonian Institute, Johnson & Johnson, and Stryker Orthopedics, Apogee has received more than 80 awards for its' productions. Apogee has produced Infant & Toddler Emergency First Aid, Pet Emergency First Aid, Heart Disease Prevention, Detection, and Treatment, Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Heart Disease & Women- Awareness & Treatment health and safety DVD's. Please visit the Apogee Communications Group website at http://www.apogeevideo.com for additional information.

Contact Information:
Arthur Levy
Apogee Communications Group
159 Alpine Way
Boulder, CO 80304
303-443-8473

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