Let's save lives. Coronary heart disease develops gradually over many years and can easily go undetected. Women don't have to worry about cardiovascular disease. It's primarily a man's problem. If a woman has a heart attack, she is more likely to survive it than a man.
Women are less likely to get heart disease after menopause than before.
When men reach middle age, or about 55, their blood cholesterol levels starts to rise, but women's cholesterol levels seem to stabilize. African-American females are more likely than white females are to die from coronary heart disease or stroke. Compliance is an important way to improve cardiovascular health and increase heart disease and stroke survival rates. Coronary heart disease takes years to develop and in the case of women, it takes almost a decade longer to show up. By then a woman is often concerned with other health problems such as cancer, arthritis or osteoporosis.