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Women and Heart Disease
  • Updated:Wed, 1 Aug 2012 1:01:00 PM
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Every minute in the United States, someone's wife, mother, daughter or sister dies from heart disease, stroke or other form of cardiovascular disease (CVD). And more than one in three women is living with CVD, including nearly half of all African-American women and 34 percent of white women. Although heart disease death rates among men have declined steadily over the last 25 years, rates among women have fallen significantly less. To address the cardiovascular health inequities among women, the American Heart Association supports:
  • HEART for Women Act: With your help and support, a key piece of this federal legislation to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of heart disease and stroke in women has now been signed into law!
  • WISEWOMAN, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention program that provides cardiovascular screening and lifestyle intervention services to low-income uninsured and underinsured women.
  • Medicare and Medicaid, both of which disproportionately serve women.
  • Affordable Care Act, which includes provisions to ban the discriminatory practice of charging women higher premiums than men for insurance coverage.
  • Health care quality measures reported by gender, race, ethnicity, primary language and disability status.
  • Food and Drug Administration approved medical treatments for CVD patients that include safety and efficacy data stratified by gender, race, ethnicity and age.
  • Health Equity and Accountability Act, federal legislation to help eliminate health inequities among minorities, women and other groups.
  • Public funding and state appropriations that support eliminating health disparities initiatives.
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HEART for Women Act

With the American Heart Association’s strong support, Congress has passed and the President has signed into law an important piece of the HEART for Women Act! This provision, which passed as part of a larger bill reforming the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), requires the FDA to report on how new prescription drugs and medical devices work in women and minorities. You're the Cure advocates have worked for years to pass this legislation to help address our nation's No. 1 killer of women.

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