Women and Heart Disease

Heart disease is the #1 killer of American women. According to the American Heart Association:

An estimated 240,000 women die annually of heart disease, five times the number that die of breast cancer.
Women account for nearly half (49 percent) of the 480,000 heart disease deaths that occur each year.
More women than men die of heart attacks within the first year of their first heart attack (44 vs. 27 percent).
Heart attacks kill nearly 21,000 women under the age of 65, and over 29 percent of them are under the age of 55.
One in eight women age 45 and over has had a heart attack.
An estimated nearly 1 million Americans are currently living with heart defects. Some defects occur more commonly in women and can remain undetected until well into adulthood, putting their lives at risk.

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