Women’s cardiovascular health has long been overlooked and understudied. Here are some things to keep in mind.

A decade-long journey through America’s healthcare system reveals troubling patterns in recognizing and treating heart disease in Black women. Despite cardiovascular disease being the leading cause of ...

A silent heart disease risk factor may explain why some women end up having heart attacks and strokes despite seeming like they are healthy, a new study suggests. The analysis of 30 years of data from ...

Cardiovascular disease kills more women annually than all cancers combined, yet many women remain unaware of their unique risk factors and warning signs. Medical professionals consistently report that ...

Cardiac surgeon Amy Fiedler, MD, stares at the motionless heart below her in an operating room at UC San Francisco’s Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights. She’s nearly five hours into a ...

COVID-19 could leave behind a hidden problem that lingers in women’s bodies for years, a new study has found. The research revealed the virus can prematurely age women’s blood vessels by around five ...

As a female cardiologist, I am acutely aware of the serious risk of heart disease in women. Heart disease is the number one cause of death for women, resulting in one of every three deaths each year; ...