In this article, Women’s Cardiovascular Healthcare Foundation highlights how important and necessary it is for women to go through cardiac rehabilitation when they’ve had a cardiovascular event or are at high risk of having one. Dr. Natalia Kpogbemabou, cardiologist and rehabilitation physician at [...]
Women have many stress hormone receptors in their arteries and cardiac muscle for hormones called catecholamines. Their coronary arteries (arteries irrigating the heart) are also smaller than men’s. All of this makes women more vulnerable to coronary artery spasms where stress triggers an artery to [...]
Tobacco is the most alarming avoidable risk factor because it’s responsible for the earliest cardiovascular events in women. At any age, for the same rate of tobacco use, the risk of heart attacks is 25% higher for women than men. Tobacco is harmful for the heart and arteries, no matter how much is [...]