‘Women must make heart health a priority’

Contrary to popular belief, women are as vulnerable to heart ailments as men. In India, cardiovascular diseases are found to be among the leading causes of mortality among women, especially in urban areas and estimates show that 16.9. per cent of all deaths in women resulted from cardiovascular diseases.

Studies at Harvard Medical School have shown that “a woman’s symptoms are often different from a man’s. Before menopause, a woman’s…