heart disease

Wakisha Stewart, a mother, wife, and nurse, shares her experience of having a postpartum heart attack at the age of 31.

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.

This article describes how menopausal changes can increase heart disease risk and how we can minimize those risks.

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 article provides a detailed overview of heart failure in women, addressing causes, types, symptoms, diagnostic testing, prevention, and treatment.

This article explores the utility of ejection fraction for heart failure patients and provides other means of understanding the condition better.

Our Bodies Ourselves content expert Maggie Teliska offers tools to cope with anxiety, from the perspective of a heart failure patient.

In this article, learn how stress, especially during the holiday season, can lead to heart issues for women.

TC discusses being diagnosed with congestive heart failure and why she became an advocate for heart health.

TC talks about living with heart failure and how she has adapted to it.

This factsheet provides tips for maintaining heart health, with a particular focus on LGBT older adults.