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Heart disease used to be thought of as a man's issue, but women are unfortunately catching up.
Women don't need to have blocked arteries to experience a heart attack, a new study points out.
Excess belly weight -- a so-called apple shape -- raises a woman's risk for heart attack even more than overall obesity, researchers report.
Stroke affects more women than men in the United States. And a new study pinpoints stroke risk factors unique to females.
Many women who develop severe pre-eclampsia during pregnancy have undetected high blood pressure in the year after they give birth, a Dutch study contends.
