American Heart Month Highlights Risks Women Often Overlook

American Heart Month highlights risks women often overlook

SHREVEPORT, La. -- You may have seen it Friday, when the American Heart Association and Go Red for Women rang the opening bell on Wall Street, officially ushering in February as American Heart Month.

Heart Disease Looks Different in Men vs. Women: Expert Comments for American Heart Month

Newswise — Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S., and scientists are only now beginning to answer a very critical question: why does heart disease affect women and men differently? Whitehead Institute Member David Page, who is also a professor of biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has spent his career studying the genetic differences between male and female cells, tissues, and organs — and how those differe…