According to the World Heart Federation, cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death for women around the globe, accounting for about 30% of all deaths.
While a woman can develop heart disease at any age, past studies show that a woman’s risk for cardiovascular issues increases after menopause, which is generally around the age of 52.
“Heart disease is still the leading killer of women, and yet for decades, the research, the clinical trials, the risk calculators were built almost entirely on men,” Garima Arora, MD, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Disease at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, told Medical News Today.
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