Women's Heart Health
While most women fear the onset of breast cancer,
heart disease surprisingly poses and is a bigger
threat, for although one in nine women develops
breast cancer in her lifetime, two out of three
women develop cardiovascular disease and stroke.
Coronary
artery disease is the major cause of mortality
in women in the United States, accounting for
nearly 250,000 deaths each year.
For women at risk of heart disease, Penn Cardiac
Care offers new treatments, which help lower cholesterol
and cardiac risk. Our physicians have also successfully
reversed heart disease through a customized and
aggressive lifestyle/diet/exercise modification
program tailored to each patient.
Please speak to your Penn Cardiac Care physician
about any women's health issues you may have.
For more information, please see our Health
Information section.
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