Men and women share many health problems, such as heart disease and high blood pressure, and advice given on leading a healthy lifestyle applies equally to both sexes. Specific issues surrounding contraception, pregnancy and other gynaecological conditions, and more details about the issues in this Factsheet, are discussed in other Factsheets.
Heart disease claims more women s lives than any other disease.
If your family has a history of heart disease, you have a greater chance of developing it. There are, however, many other risk factors that you can do something about. Your smear results can mean several things. An abnormal result is sometimes called pre-cancerous, but most women with an abnormal smear do not develop cancer of the cervix. Instead, these abnormal cells are usually the result of a viral infection with the human papilloma virus.