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Article: Heart disease.(women's health)
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- October 1, 2005
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Heart disease, the No. 1 killer of women, is no longer considered a man's disease. New research suggests that the death rate among women who have heart disease is higher than that for men. After menopause, women begin to develop heart disease and die as a result of it the same rate as men. Black women are more likely to die of heart disease than White women, and surprisingly, women are twice as likely to die from heart disease than any form of cancer. Recently, medical researchers concluded that at least 40 percent of African-Americans have some form of heart disease.
Heart disease is a group of diseases of the heart and the blood vessel system within the heart. ...