DID YOU KNOW? One in Three Women Die From Heart Disease

1.  Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in women.

2.  More women die from cardiovascular disease than the next five leading cuases of   death combined, including all forms of cancer.

3.  Cardiovascular disease kills approximately 460,000 women each year, which is about one death every minute.

4.  Only one in five women understands that heart disease is her greatest health threat. 

5.  Due to statistic number four:  The death rate from heart disease has declined 28% for both genders in the last decade, but declined less for women than men.

I consider myself an educated woman but I had no idea that heart disease was my greatest health threat. I am lucky to be alive. On April 27, 2008, I became a survivor of cardiac arrest at the young age of 51. Once I learned the above statistics, I became a woman on a mission. That mission is to inform women that heart disease is NOT an exclusive men's club as I had once thought. I was recently informed at a heart talk that more women suffer heart attacks than men. My grandfathers died in their early sixties of heart disease and my father had bypass surgery at the age of 49. I am the first woman in my family with heart disease and I want to make sure I am the last!

6.  Heart disease is highly preventable.

More to come. Learn how to save your life or the life of a woman that you love.

Ellen Abramson

Author of Live to Dance