Heart Disease in Women
Original Content | January 01, 2006
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The major type of heart disease in this country affecting 13.2 million and which remains the number one killer of men and women is coronary artery disease (CHD) or hardening of the arteries that feed blood to the heart. Significant blockages in these arteries can cause heart attack or death of heart muscle, irregular heart rhythm and heart failure. CHD kills about 500,000 people (300,000 women) annually. Ten times as many women die of CHD than from breast cancer. About 1.2 million people have heart attacks every year. 43 percent of these are women. |
