Heart disease is a disorder that affects the heart muscle or the blood vessels of the heart.
Millions of women heading for menopause are also heading for heart disease - and many of them have it and don't know it. Overweight women have twice the risk for heart disease as healthy-weight women. One in five women has some form of cardiovascular disease, including heart disease. The good news is heart disease can be diagnosed and treated. Internists are uniquely qualified to know all the signs and symptoms in women.