Women’s and girls’ heart health: New guidelines for doctors, patients
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Women’s and girls’ heart health: New guidelines for doctors, patients

Four major US medical groups have released new heart health guidelines for women covering every life stage from puberty through menopause.

The new framework details how biological changes — periods, pregnancy, perimenopause and menopause — affects heart health throughout a female's life.

The Long Sip
What happened

Four major US medical organisations jointly released a framework linking female biological milestones like periods, pregnancy and menopause to heart health risks.

What it means

The guidelines aim to connect fragmented women's healthcare across specialties so that heart health monitoring starts in adolescence, not just in older age.

For you

The guidelines say heart disease risk begins well before old age, so women of any age can ask their doctor about cardiovascular checks at their next appointment.

Full story at NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

What readers are saying

Shebox
The fact that only 41 percent of women see heart disease as their top health threat despite it killing more than all lung and breast cancers combined shows why we need this shift. It is clear that estrogen and progesterone affect everything from blood stickiness to inflammation, so treating heart health as separate from reproductive biology is just bad medicine.
indira1975
Integrating hormonal health into long term cardiovascular risk management is essential.
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