Women and Cardiovascular Disease
In this guide, terms such as “women” and “females” are used. We recognize that people who identify as female may not experience the issues and outcomes described and people who don’t identify as female may experience them. Employers should consider the health and well-being considerations of employees who identify as non-binary or transgender or who may be affected in other ways. Cc oVnDd ii st i ao ng es nseurcahl taesr mc o tnhgaetsdt ievsec rhi ebaerst af adiilsueraes, ee on fdtohcea hr de iat ri st , ohr ebal rotordhvyet hs sme l sp raonbdl ei nmc sl uadneds coronary heart disease, all of which can lead to heart attack or stroke. 10 Diabetes and obesity are significant risk factors for CVD, 11 and obesity-associated type 2 diabetes accounts for 90-95% of all diagnosed diabetes cases in adults. 12 CcyV-Dreilsatthede ldeeaadtihnsg.cause of death in women (and men) and the leading cause of pregnan- 6 In 2021, heart disease was responsible for 1 in every 5 deaths among women but research has shown that only about half (56%) of women in the U.S. recognize that heart disease is their No. 1 killer. 7 Up to 90% of women in the U.S. have at least one cardiovascular risk 8 and nearly half— 4te4n%sio—n.who are 20 years old or older have some form of clinical CVD‚ including hyper- 9
6 https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000907 7 https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/women.htm 8 https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.121.319876 9 https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000950 10 https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/def/cardiovascular-disease 11 https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/diabetes/diabetes-complications-and-risks/cardiovascular-disease--diabetes 12 https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.116.308999
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