Cardiovascular Health

Heart disease is the leading killer of women. Here's what the research says.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in women, and women are significantly more likely than men to be misdiagnosed or undertreated when they present with cardiac symptoms. The research gap runs deep: for most of cardiology's history, women were studied as a footnote. That's beginning to change. Maternie tracks cardiovascular research as it applies specifically to women — from the hormonal drivers of heart disease risk to the studies examining why women's outcomes after cardiac events remain worse than men's.