Women's Heart Health

PCOS is a reproductive justice issue. Racism, sexism, stress, and trauma all contribute to Black women's disproportionately high rates of PCOS, as well as whether Black women even get diagnosed correctly, and the treatment we receive

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.

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

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

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

Women who experience acute heart failure report worse quality of life than men, even when other health factors seem similar.

Growing research shows that men and women experience coronary artery disease–the most common type of heart disease–differently.

Factors such as age, menopause and perimenopause, and breast cancer lead men and women experience heart health--and heart attacks--very differently. This article explains the connections.

While women are less likely to experience cardiovascular disease than men, those who do are less likely to fully recover.

Men and women seem to experience arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats, differently, in part due to different hormone levels.

A helpful overview of the ways our gender can impact how we experience heart disease.