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Womens heart health is important. The heart is a very important organ in the body which needs to continuously pump blood around the body all through life.
The heart is part of the vascular system. The vascular system consists of the blood vessels that communicate with the heart - arteries and the veins (including the tiny capillaries - the smallest blood vessels of all).
The heart receives the nutrient and oxygen-rich blood from the lungs which it sends to all the tissues and cells in the body through the arteries. The heart also receives the oxygen-poor blood and other wastes through the veins and sends them to the lungs to be recycled.
When the heart works well, it is an amazing organ, but when it does not, it can cause many health problems, including death, if not diagnosed in time.
Women often experience symptoms from heart problems very differently to men which they need to be aware of in order to protect their heart health. So many women die each year from heart disease, which could be eradicated for the most part with diet, exercise and less stress.
This part of the site looks at every aspect of heart (and vascular system) health.
- Arrhythmia (palpitations)
- Arteriosclerosis
- Atherosclerosis
- Boost your metabolism for better heart health
- Chest pain
- Coronary artery disease
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Heart attack
- Heart failure
- Heart surgery
- High blood pressure
- High LDL cholesterol
- Intermittent claudation
- Stroke
- Thrombosis
