Examples Coronary heart disease (heart attack)

• What’s Cardiovascular Disease?

• CVD is heart and blood vessel diseases — diseases that affect the circulatory system.
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Examples

• Coronary heart disease (heart attack)
• Cerebrovascular disease (stroke and TIA)
• High blood pressure
• Congestive heart failure
• Congenital cardiovascular defects
• Peripheral vascular disease

CVD Claims 500,000 Women’s Lives Every Year

• CVD — kills more women than the next 7 causes of death combined
• Breast cancer — kills 1 in 30 women
• CVD — kills 1 of every 2.5 women

Women, Heart Disease and Stroke

• Heart disease is women’s No. 1 killer
• Stroke is women’s No. 3 killer

What Women Don’t Know

• Coronary heart disease rates in women rise 2-3 times after menopause
• Blacks are at higher risk than whites
• 1 of 3 Hispanic females dies of diseases of the heart and stroke