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The number of women with risk factors for cardiovascular disease could significantly increase over the next 25 years, the ...

Progress against cardiovascular disease in the United States has slowed — and in some cases reversed — over the past 15 years, despite major advances in treatment, according to a new Harvard-led ...

Without better prevention and early detection, the number of women living with cardiovascular disease will increase substantially in the next 25 years, the American Heart Association said.

What makes the current projections particularly troubling is that this increase is largely attributed to modifiable risk factors such as hypertension, obesity, diabetes, physical inactivity, and ...