Heartbeat To Heartbeat
Women and Heart Disease
with Lucy Lawless

Emmy Award-winning executive producer Helene Lerner hosts HEARTBEAT TO HEARTBEAT: WOMEN AND HEART DISEASE, an urgent wake-up call for women to improve their cardiovascular health. The documentary reveals useful information on risk factors, symptoms and prevention of heart disease, while exploring the emotional impact of the number-one killer of women in the United States. HEARTBEAT also addresses the need for women to ask their physicians questions and to reach out for support. Interviews include heart disease advocate Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess) and Kathy Kastan, president of WomenHeart.

Actor Lucy Lawless, star of the television series, Xena: Warrior Princess, who encourages women to take charge of their well-being: “Being a warrior goes into all aspects of our life, especially women’s health…. We’re all trying to do everything all the time. And I think we have to take a really strong focus on putting our health
first, in every aspect—physical health, heart health, mental, emotional health.”
As the documentary underscores, diagnosis and treatment are critical to saving—and reclaiming—one’s life.

Heartbeat to Heartbeat: Women and Heart Disease is a production of Creative Expansions, Inc.

The program is presented by KCTS/Seattle Public Television and distributed by American Public Television (APT).

Executive Producer/Host: Helene Lerner.
Producers: Mona Kanin and Carey Graeber.
Editor: Satoko Sugiyama.
Director of Photography: Lloyd Handwerker.

Major funding for Heartbeat to Heartbeat is provided by Medtronic and by Omron Healthcare.
 

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