Heart disease is a woman’s disease
- More women than men die of cardiovascular disease each year.
- Women are less likely than men to receive appropriate treatment after a heart attack.
- Heart disease is the leading cause of death of American women, killing more than a third.
- Since 1984, more women than men have died each year from heart disease.
- Heart and vascular disease kills more women than COPD, lung cancer, breast cancer, and diabetes combined.
Many women are affected
- 42.9
million women are currently living with some form of cardiovascular
disease (CVD), which is disease of the heart and blood vessels.
- More than 2.6 million women have a history of heart attack.
- 30.7% of Mexican-American women have cardiovascular disease.
- 48.9% of African-American women have cardiovascular disease.
It’s fatal
- Heart disease causes 1 in 3 deaths each year.
- CVD caused 1 death per minute among women in 2007. That represents more
female lives than were claimed by cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and
accidents combined.
- 421,918 deaths in American women are caused by CVD each year.
Take ownership of your heart disease risk by knowing your numbers. _______
*Statistics
adapted from:
Go A S, Mozaffarian, D, Roger, V L, Benjamin E J, et al. Heart
Disease and Stroke Statistics 2013 Update: A Report from the American
Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics
Subcommittee. Circulation 2013.
and
Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics 2011 Update: A Report
from the American Heart Association Committee and Stroke Statistics
Subcommittee. Circulation, 2011; 121:31-e-170.
Updated January 2013
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