Living a healthier lifestyle can help prevent heart disease.
GW Women’s Heart Center was formed to help prevent, diagnose & manage heart disease, while inspiring women.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in American women.
Early detection and early treatment are key to fighting heart disease.
It’s important to understand which risk factors affect you and what actions you can take to reduce your overall risk of developing heart disease. To Learn More about:
Each year in the US, cardiovascular diseases top the list of most serious health problems. Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death and stroke is the third leading cause of death. Stroke is also the number one cause of serious, long-term disability.
George Washington University has been one of the 40 sites participating in The Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), the large federally funded national study that has focused on strategies for preventing heart disease, breast and colorectal cancer and fracture in postmenopausal women. At GW, 3,600 women joined the study, in one of 3 clinical trials or an observational study.
