Prairie Heart Institute Online .
Breast cancer is the most significant health and death threat to women.
Female deaths caused by cardiovascular disease are 10 times greater than deaths from breast cancer, and nearly twice the death rate from all cancers combined. In fact, diseases of the heart and blood vessels kill more American women than the next 16 causes of death combined. Heart attack symptoms for men and women are the same. Lack of understanding about these symptoms causes many women to delay seeing their doctor, and many medical professionals to misdiagnose them. Men have a greater risk of dying of a heart attack than women.