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Bookmark or Share- Heart Attack - Heart Attacks in Women - NHLBI, NIHHeart attacks are not common among pregnant women, but they are possible both during and soon after delivery. Normal changes to your body during pregnancy can raise your risk of a heart attack. Your age, lifestyle habits, and other health conditions, such as bleeding disorders, obesity, preeclampsia (high blood pressure during pregnancy), and ...
- Listen to Your Heart: Women and Heart Disease | NHLBI, NIHNHLBI effort will reach out to younger women, Black and Latina women to reverse concerning trend Heart disease is the number one cause of death among women and men in the United States. Each year more than 300,000 women, or 1 in every 5, die from it. Yet, studies show that less than half of U.S. women are aware of the toll it can take, and even...
- HealthyWomen: Empowering Women To Make Informed Health Decisions To ...A major benefit of the partnership is our collective reach. By working together, we amplify our messages and protect more women from heart disease. For example, earlier this year, HealthyWomen partnered with The Heart Truth on a webinar encouraging women to take action to protect their heart health.
- Advancing Women's Heart Health Fact Sheet | NHLBI, NIHThis fact sheet highlights the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s long history of including women in cardiovascular studies and how these research efforts continue to increase our understanding of the unique impact heart disease has on women as well as current studies to improve women’s heart health.
- Working to increase awareness of heart disease in womenThe program introduced the Red Dress as an iconic national symbol for women and heart disease to bring greater visibility to risk factors – such as obesity and high blood pressure – and motivate women to protect their hearts. The program, which targeted women ages 40-60, helped double awareness of heart disease in women after its initial ...
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