Heart disease is the number one killer of American Women. 

Every year, an estimated 485,000 American women die of heart disease & stroke, more than twice the number who die of all forms of cancer combined.

An estimated 240,000 women die annually of heart disease, five times the number who die of breast cancer. 

Women suffer nearly half of the 480,000 heart disease deaths that occur each year.

Heart attacks kill nearly 21,000 women under the age of 65, and over 29 percent of them are under the age of 55.

One in eight women age 45 and over has had a heart attack.

Coronary heart disease is a major risk factor for stroke, which kills over 87,000 women each year.