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10 Ways Women Can Prevent Heart Disease

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Jennifer Doak-Mathewson

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UConn Health faculty and staff on National Go Red Day 2016.
Faculty and staff teamed together on National Go Red Day in the Outpatient Pavilion to create a large heart shape to help raise awareness of heart disease (Photo by Janine Gelineau).

February is American Heart Month, and UConn cardiologists Drs. Anjanette Ferris, Agnes Kim, and Joyce Meng say all women need to start taking action today to prevent the development of heart disease and to maintain their overall heart health.

“Heart disease is still the number one killer of women in our country,” says Ferris, assistant professor of medicine at the Pat and Jim Calhoun Cardiovascular Center at UConn Health. “While we have made some gains in raising awareness, more than one in three females in their lifetime will be affected by cardiovascular diseases. The prevalence of heart disease is still too high, and more needs to be done to prevent it.”

Learn the top 10 recommendations fromFerris, Kim, and Meng on how women can prevent heart disease and maintain heart health in UConn Today.

 

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