A Woman’s Heart Is Special: Risk Factors for Heart Disease You Didn’t Know You Had
As February focuses on women's heart health and the anniversary of our Women's Heart Center, we wanted to highlight uniquely female cardiovascular (CV) risks.Heart disease is still the number one killer of women.As women, we face conventional risk factors for heart disease, such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, tobacco and nicotine use (including vaping!), diabetes, sleep apnea, and obesity.Unfortunately, we have secondary risk factors that you need to be aware of ...