Heart Disease Kills More Women than All the Forms of Cancer Combined

So I wanna just jump into some of the basics about women's heart health for you all, and I know you've heard it, but I want you to actually take it in, not just listen to what we're saying, but to absorb.

You know, I didn't realize that heart disease is really an umbrella term until reading your book, that many things fall under this.

So what falls under this?

So cardiovascular disease is a broad term, and it encompasses things like heart attack, electrical problems like atrial fibrillation.

It encompasses heart failure, valve disease, stroke.

So it's all of these things under this big umbrella term, and as you said in the opening, it is the leading cause of death for women in this country.

One out of every three women, Oprah, are dying from cardiovascular disease.

These are our sisters, our friends, our mothers, our colleagues, and I think it just has not become personal enough for people.

I think that there is a lack of awareness, and what I would hope that every listener would do right now is to close their eyes and picture the faces of the women that they love.

Mm-hmm.

Because these are women that we're gonna lose, that are not gonna have the birthdays with us, that are not gonna go to the graduations.

We're not gonna be able to be at their weddings.

So all of those moments in life with the women that we love They can be gone in a heartbeat.

I think and also because so many people misread what it means to have a heart attack or have heart disease, because everybody thinks unless you have the burning sensation in your arm or unless all of a sudden you can't breathe, that it's not a heart attack.

But the symptoms show up in so many other different ways.

Can we talk about that?

Absolutely.

So by far and away, the most common symptom in women of a heart attack will be chest pain or pressure, okay? So first of all, that's important to know.

But it doesn't have to be the type of very sharp, strong chest pain that makes you fall out of your chair.

It can be a sensation like my bra is just on too tight.

I feel something heavy or pressure or tightness or squeezing here.

It can also look like jaw pain or neck pain or shoulder pain.

Or stomach pain, you said.

Or stomach pain.

Oh, man.