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Article: Heart disease, not breast cancer, nation's No. 1 killer of women
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- December 24, 2007
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HEART attack and stroke kill 10 times as many women each year as
breast cancer.
In 2000, 439,000 women died of heart attack or stroke, the most
frequent causes of death in women. One tenth as many, 42,000, died
of breast cancer.
Nevertheless, heart disease is not considered a woman's disease.
Each year 1.1 million people have a heart attack, of which
370,000 die -- 250,000 in the first hour.
By age 60, one of every 17 women develops coronary heart disease.
By age 70, one out of every eight women will have had a heart attack
or heart pain.
The younger the woman, the more likely the first symptom will be
sudden death.
Once an older woman gets heart disease, they will be more
affected ...