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Heart Disease in Women

What is heart disease?

Heart disease is a general term that includes many types of heart problems. It's also called cardiovascular disease, which means heart and blood vessel disease.

Coronary artery disease (also called coronary heart disease) is the most common type of heart disease in both men and women. It happens slowly over time when a sticky substance called plaque builds up in the arteries that supply your heart muscle with blood. The plaque narrows or blocks blood flow to the heart muscle and can lead to:

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  1. Heart Disease in Women (National Library of Medicine)  
    ... rate or rhythm of your heartbeat How does heart disease affect women? In the United States, heart disease is the ... have symptoms. Health care providers may not recognize heart disease in women because women's symptoms may be different from men's ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/heartdiseaseinwomen.html - Health Topics
  2. Heart disease and women 
    ... than women. Women's risk increases after menopause. EARLY HEART DISEASE SIGNS Women may have warning signs that go unnoticed for ... provider. Estrogen is no longer used to prevent heart disease in women of any age. Estrogen may increase the risk ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/007188.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  3. Heart Disease in Women: Understand Symptoms and Risk Factors (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)  
    Heart Disease in Women/Prevention and Risk Factors ... Heart Disease in Women ... How to Prevent Heart Disease/Women ... How to Prevent Heart Disease ... Mayo Foundation ...
    https://www.mayoclinic.org/.../heart-disease/ART-20046167?p=1 - External Health Links
  4. Women and Heart Disease (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)  
    Heart Disease in Women/Statistics and Research ... Heart Disease in Women ... Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ... Almost as many women as men die each year ...
    https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/women.htm - External Health Links
  5. Heart Disease in Hispanic Women (American Heart Association)  
    Heart Disease in Women/Related Issues ... Heart Disease in Women ... Latino and Hispanic American Health/Women ... Latino and Hispanic American Health ... American Heart ...
    https://www.goredforwomen.org/.../heart-disease-in-hispanic-women - External Health Links
  6. Triglycerides (National Library of Medicine)  
    What are triglycerides? Triglycerides are a type of fat. They are the most common type of fat in your body. They come from foods, especially butter, oils, ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/triglycerides.html - Health Topics
  7. ClinicalTrials.gov: Heart Disease in Women From the National Institutes of Health (National Institutes of Health)  
    Heart Disease in Women/Clinical Trials ... Heart Disease in Women
    https://clinicaltrials.gov/...")+AND+women&aggFilters=status:not rec - External Health Links
  8. Easy-to-Read Health Information 
    ... Like (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) - PDF Heart Disease in Women Heart Health for Women (Food and Drug Administration) Also in Spanish Take Action for Your Heart: Get Started! (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) - PDF Heart Diseases Take Action for Your Heart: Get Started! (National ...
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  9. How to Prevent Heart Disease (National Library of Medicine)  
    ... heart disease, but diabetes raises the risk of heart disease more in women than in men. Race or ethnicity. Certain groups ... gain. Both of those raise your risk of heart disease. Men should have no more than two alcoholic drinks per day, and women should not have more than one. Don't ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/howtopreventheartdisease.html - Health Topics
  10. Stars step out for women’s heart health awareness | NIH MedlinePlus Magazine 
    ... an event in New York bringing awareness to heart disease in women. ... and the AHA. The campaign brings awareness to heart disease in women. The disease is the number one killer of ...
    https://magazine.medlineplus.gov/...r-womenas-heart-health-awareness - MedlinePlus Magazine
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