How the American Heart Association Helped Change Women's Heart Health

摘要

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has historically been the leading cause of death in the United States since 1918, with men carrying the bulk of this burden for decades. In the 1970s, CVD deaths began to decline for the total population. However, for women, the number of annual CVD deaths began to slowly increase. From the mid-1980s to the current decade, more women than men died each year from CVD. By 2005, breast cancer caused 1 in 30 female deaths, whereas 1 in 2.7 died from CVD. In the same year, =45000 more women died from CVD than men.