Heart Smart Recipe Heart Volunteers Building a Running Regime Coronary artery disease is the number one killer of women.
Most women think it is breast cancer.
But for every woman who dies of breast cancer, five die of heart disease. Often a woman is so busy taking care of everybody else that she neglects herself. If her husband or father experiences chest pain, he probably heads for the emergency room. If a woman experiences chest pain, she often ignores it and carries on. It is true that women are somewhat protected from heart disease until menopause.