For decades, heart disease looked like men's problem. New evidence shows women's risk follows a more dangerous path

For decades, heart disease looked like men's problem. New evidence shows women's risk follows a more dangerous path

For most of the 20th century, cardiovascular disease (CVD) was perceived to be a predominantly male condition, leading to systematic under-recognition and under-treatment in women. Since its inception in 1948, the Framingham Heart Study (FHS), one of the longest-running epidemiological studies in the world, has changed this understanding by demonstrating that CVD is not only a major cause of morbidity and mortality in women, but that certain ris…