We've posted some new and important information about women and heart disease to our women's services section on eCommunity. The article was written by Cindy Adams, Ph.D., N.P., from The Indiana Heart Hospital.
Excerpt:
"Many of us don’t think heart disease will affect us, but the numbers don’t lie. Nearly a half-million women die each year from heart and vascular disease-equivalent to the number of people killed in the World Trade Center bombings every 2 ½ days, every year.
Even more concerning is that while the death rate from coronary disease has dropped by about 50 percent in the general population between 1980 and 2002, it increased during that period for women between the ages of 35 to 54 – at a rate of 1.5 percent each year."
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