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YEAR, ABOUT 267,000 WOMEN DIE from a myocardial infarction (MI),
and each year, as many as 9,000 women who have an MI are younger
than 45 years.1 In spite of these alarming statistics, less than
half of the women in a recent survey knew that cardiovascular
disease was the leading cause of death in women and even fewer
women, only 13%, felt that the greatest danger to their health
was heart disease.1 Because many cardiac symptoms experienced by
women are atypical, many women are unable to link their symptoms
to heart disease, which often leads them to delay seeking
treatment.1 But since 1984, the number of women whose deaths
were related to cardiovascular disease has exceeded those for
men, and has continued to rise.2 Despite these facts, women's
cardiovascular he