- More than one million Americans die from the complications of coronary heart disease (CAD) annually. This is more than die of the next seven most common causes of death combined, including all forms of cancer.
- The average middle-aged woman is unaware of these facts, and, therefore, generally not well informed about how to reduce her risk for developing CAD.
- More than half of the people who die from CAD are women.
- More than 500,000 American women lose their lives to heart disease (1 in 4 women) compared to 45,000 women who die from breast cancer (1 in 30 women).
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- Cardiovascular disease kills about one woman every minute in the United States.
- Women are much more likely than men to die within a year of their first heart attack.
- Two-thirds of women who have a heart attack fail to make a full recovery.
- Within six years of having a heart attack, about 46% of women become disabled with heart failure.
- One in eight women between the ages of 45 and 64 has some form of heart disease, and this increases to one in four women over age 65.
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