Leading Health Groups Redefine Heart Health for Girls and Women with First Coordinated Female Life Stage Framework

A New Way to Think About Women’s Heart Health

—J Studios—Getty ImagesWomen are speaking more openly about periods, pregnancy, perimenopause, and menopause, bringing once-taboo topics into public conversation. Clinicians and health systems need to now connect these experiences with what the science is telling us about how they influence a woman’s cardiovascular health throughout her life.A woman may see a gynecologist for her irregular periods, a therapist for her depression, and a primary c…

The 4 stages of women’s heart health: Experts present new framework

Four distinct phases of a woman's life (periods, pregnancy, perimenopause, menopause) are united as medical societies embrace new approach to heart health.

Leading Health Groups Redefine Heart Health for Girls and Women with First Coordinated Female Life Stage Framework

Four major medical societies have released a landmark three-part publication in Circulation that establishes a Female Life Stage framework to prevent, detect and manage cardiovascular disease in women from puberty through menopause and beyond, and calls for a national network of Comprehensive Centers of Excellence for Women's Cardiovascular Care. The post Leading Health Groups Redefine Heart Health for Girls and Women with First Coordinated Fema…