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Gender Matters: Heart Disease Risk in Women. - Harvard Women's Health Watch, 2004. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Article 11, Health, 1522-323X; .

Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Originally Published: Gender Matters: Heart Disease Risk in Women, May 2004; pp. 1-3.

"We've come a long way since the days when a woman's worry over heart disease centered exclusively on its threat to the men in her life. We now know it's not just a man's problem. Every year, coronary heart disease, the single biggest cause of death in the United States, claims women and men in nearly equal numbers." (HARVARD WOMEN'S HEALTH WATCH) This article examines the increasing incidence of heart disease in women.

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American Heart Association


Health behavior
Heart--Diseases
Heart--Diseases--Risk factors
Sex differences
Women--Diseases
Women--Health risk assessment

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