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Microvascular dysfunction can cause chest pain before coronary artery disease becomes visible. "Women have gender-specific risk factors for damage to the ...
... Heart Health" posted February 24, 2014. Dr. Hayes says part of the problem has been an outdated belief that women had a lower risk of heart disease than men.
Learn about symptoms, causes and treatment of cardiovascular disease, a term describing a wide range of conditions that can affect the heart.
"We already know that women with high blood pressure during pregnancy or those who experience menopause symptoms such as hot flashes and night sweats have a ...
1 cause of death in women in the U.S. And African American women have an even higher risk of dying from heart disease ― and at a younger age ― than white women, ...
All women face the threat of heart disease, which is the No. 1 killer of Americans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Amy Pollak, ...
Clogged arteries in the heart, arms or legs; Stroke; Heart Failure; Abnormal heart rhythms. Some of the risk factors that increase African American women's risk ...
Family history of heart attacks. If a brother, sister, parent or grandparent had an early heart attack (by age 55 for males and by age 65 for females), you ...
To understand what factors put younger individuals at higher risk of premature coronary heart disease (CHD), researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and ...
And many women continue to take on those challenges. These are just some of the reasons that may explain why women's risk of cardiovascular disease increased — ...
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