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Heart HealthNews from the PEPI studyHeart disease is the leading cause of death and illness for American women. Each year, about 250,000 American women die of coronary heart disease, the main form of heart disease, and nearly 90,000 die each year of stroke. Heart disease is also the leading cause of death for men, but men and women differ in how and when heart disease develops. Typically, heart disease develops about 10 years later in women than in men. The reason for this may be tied to women's production of the hormone estrogen. When women go through menopause, their ovaries essentially stop making estrogen and their risk of heart disease rises dramatically. Eventually, it nearly equals that of men.
More information from the PEPI study:
Source: The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
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