Women’s Health: Knowing your Heart Age
When thinking about women’s health issues, heart disease does not often top the list as a leading cause of medical distress. However, following dementia and Alzheimer’s disease and lung cancer, heart disease accounts for 11% of deaths in the UK for those over age 80 and is the second leading cause of death for those aged 65 to 79. For women between the ages of 35 and 49, heart disease is the fourth leading cause of death, and for those aged 50 to 64, the health condition falls behind breast and Read more [...]