Women and Heart

Heart disease is another example where sex — or perhaps sexism — still plays a huge determining factor - Kelly Burrowes

Women and Heart

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Why heart disease is often missed in women: The myth of the ‘widowmaker’

Heart disease is the No. 1 cause of death for women throughout the world. Approximately seven times more women will die from heart disease than breast cancer. Even in women with breast cancer, dying from heart disease is a leading cause of death.

Yet when I ask undergraduate students in my chronic disease class (most of whom are female) which disease causes the most deaths in women, only about half give the answer heart disease; a third say it is breast cancer.

This mirrors a 2012 survey from the United States, which found that only 56 per cent of female respondents identified heart disease as the leading cause of death.

Such a lack of awareness has very real consequences.…

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 Why heart disease is often missed in women: The myth of the ‘widowmaker’

Heart disease is the No. 1 cause of death for women throughout the world. Approximately seven times more women will die from heart disease than breast cancer. Even in women with breast cancer, dying from heart disease is a leading cause of death.

Heart Sisters

All about women and heart disease - our #1 killer - from the unique perspective of CAROLYN THOMAS, a Mayo Clinic-trained women's health advocate, heart attack survivor, blogger, speaker.

Women's Heart Foundation

The Women's Heart Foundation, the only Non-Governmental Organization that designs and implements demonstration projects for the prevention of heart disease.

WomenHeart

The leading voice for the millions of American women living with or at risk of heart disease

CardioSmart

Use this resource to learn more about coronary artery disease in women, keep up with the latest research and get tips for staying healthy.

Go Red for Women

Go Red For Women inspires women to make lifestyle changes, mobilize communities and shape policies to save lives. United, we are working to improve the health of all women.

Seconds Count

You likely know by now that more women than men die from heart disease each year. If so, you are a step ahead of many women. According to the American Heart Association, only 1 in 5 women believe that heart disease is their greatest health threat. Now more than ever, with obesity and diabetes on the rise in this country, it's time to take notice.

British Heart Foundation

Women are at risk if they don’t recognise the signs of a heart attack and then delay getting help. Together with gender inequalities in heart attack care, this is costing women’s lives. It’s time to put this right.

Heart&Stroke

Women’s experience with heart disease is different from men’s in several important ways. Women are under-aware and under-researched. Within the healthcare system they are under-diagnosed and under-treated, and under-supported in their recovery. Women’s unique physiology poses distinct challenges in the prevention and management of heart disease.

Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center

The Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center at the Smidt Heart Institute is playing a leading role in identifying female-pattern heart disease, developing new diagnostic tools and advancing specialized care for women. Although heart disease kills more women than men every year, the treatment of women's heart disease was based—until recently—on medical research performed on men.

CardioSmart

Welcome to CardioSmart, the patient education and empowerment initiative brought to you by the American College of Cardiology. Our mission is to help individuals prevent, treat and manage cardiovascular disease.

CDC

Although heart disease is sometimes thought of as a man’s disease, almost as many women as men die each year of heart disease in the United States.

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