Women don’t only get heart disease, they’re getting heart disease in larger and larger numbers. In fact, according to the FamilyDoctor.org:
heart disease is the leading cause of death among women over 65. American women are 4 to 6 times more likely to die of heart disease than of breast cancer. Heart disease kills more women over 65 than all cancers combined.
To watch a video on how women need to be more aware of their risk of heart disease, click on this TV screen:

And to watch a video on coronary heart disease itself, click on this TV screen:

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Like people who have hypothyroidism, those who have no symptoms of an underactive thyroid also have an increased risk of coronary heart disease. In a recent meta study combining the results of 14 observational studies, researchers at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland found:

Subjects with an underactive thyroid without symptoms, also referred to as subclinical hypothyroidism, had a 65 percent increased risk of coronary heart disease.
Nine studies included a comparison group without hypothyroidism, matched to the hypothyroid group for age and demographic factors — those with subclinical hypothyroidism had an increased risk of 81 percent for heart disease.
In studies that …read more

Over at The Medical Blog Network, Dr. Rob Lamberts gives an overview of risk factors for coronary heart disease.

Diabetes – especially Type 2 (Adult onset) diabetes
High blood pressure
Family history of heart disease (Father under age 55, mother under age 65 or siblings with heart disease are considered strong risk factors)
Smoking – the more the merrier – smoking a single cigarette per day is not the same as 2 packs per day, but both are a bad idea.
High Cholesterol.

Learn more at Dr. Lamberts’s blog.

Low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol is bad. Very bad. It clogs your heart’s arteries and is a major factor in coronary heart disease.
Some people, like the Chinese, naturally have low levels of LDL and correspondingly low levels of heart disease. Genetics play a large part in determining LDL Levels but the environment is important too. High-fat, high-cholesterol diet, sedentary lifestyle, and smoking all increase LDL cholesterol levels.
In a recent study, researchers found that even a small increase decrease in LDL cholesterol can reduce a person’s risk of coronary heart disease. It’s possible to reduce the …read more