cardiovascular disease

Cardiologist Christine Jellis discusses heart conditions that can run in our families and what we can do to take control of our heart health.

Can breastfeeding reduce our risk of cardiovascular disease? The American Heart Association describes the many ways that breastfeeding benefits both babies and birthing parents.

How can we lower our cardiovascular risk when we have a history of pregnancy complications?

As we age, menopause affects our risk for heart disease in various ways. This article from the American Heart Association explains how.

Women’s heart attack symptoms may be subtler than men’s. Learn how to recognize heart disease in women and steps we can take to help prevent it.

This article discusses concrete ways we can make a plan to protect our heart health, including how to calculate our risk and recognize the often different signs of heart disease in women during menopause.

Find groups and organizations that are spreading awareness of how women's heart health differs from that of men and advocating for improvements in the diagnosis and treatment women's heart health.

This video, from Harvard Medical Grand Rounds, includes several presentations on reproductive health for medical providers in internal medicine.

An overview of information about the connection between COVID-19 and heart health.

Why continued research is needed on heart health in LGBTQ adults

This article describes the different types of cardiologists and what roles they have in your care.

This article explains why women are especially vulnerable to death from heart disease.