Some statistics about heart disease.

Six times as many women die each year of heart attacks as they do from breast cancer.

Cardiovascular disease (heart disease and stroke) killed around 500,000 women in the United States last year.

Women who smoke risk having a heart attack almost twenty years earlier than women who don?t smoke.

Black women ages 55 to 65 are twice as likely as white women to have heart attacks.

One study found that fewer than 30 percent of women had the classic crushing chest pain as a symptom when having a heart attack.

Women under the age of 50 are three times more likely to die of a heart attack post-operatively than men.

Only 18 percent of heart disease cases are hereditary.