Women's hearts are special
Why women need specialized heart care

Caring for the body's most important muscle — the heart — is essential for good health. For women, having a medical team that understands their heart disease risk and symptoms can make all the difference.

In the past, doctors' understanding of heart disease was based on how it affects men. Today, we know that women experience different symptoms — which neither they nor their doctor may realize are heart-related.
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Vanderbilt Women's Heart Center

Heart disease is often missed in women. Vanderbilt Health offers a specialized program tailored to women's heart health needs, from adolescence to childbirth to menopause. Women's Heart Center experts work together to treat heart disease with the special needs of women in mind.
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Knowledge is power

The good news: There are ways to reverse heart disease, and to prevent it in the first place. Heart-healthy habits are within your control.
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Tips from a heart attack survivor

Women are taught about mammograms and Pap smears, but little about heart health, says one woman who had a heart attack at 32. What to know.
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