Is it true that thousands more women die every year of heart disease than breast cancer?
* 8,000,000 American women are currently living with heart disease – 10% of women ages 45 – 64 and 25% age 65 and over. * 6,000,000 of women today have a history of heart attack and/or angina or both. Nearly * 13% of women age 45 and over have had a heart attack. * 435,000 American women have heart attacks each year; 83,000 are under age 65 and 9,000 are under age 45. Their average age is 70.4. * 4,000,000 women suffer from angina, and 47,000 of them were hospitalized in 1999. Mortality: * Heart disease is the leading cause of death of American women and kills 32% of them. * 43% of deaths in American women, or nearly 500,000, are caused by cardiovascular disease (heart disease and stroke) each year. * 267,000 women die each year from heart attacks, which kill six times as many women as breast cancer. * 31, 837 women die each year of congestive heart failure, or 62.6% of all heart failure deaths.
