Sending a romantic Valentine’s card is meant to make a lover’s heart skip a beat, but when did you last think about your own heart health? Heart problems are often presumed to mainly affect older men – meaning women’s heart health concerns can be dismissed, resulting in a gender gap in heart care with deadly consequences.
In fact, coronary heart disease kills more than twice as many women as breast cancer in the UK every year. Plus, it was the single biggest killer of women worldwide in 2019, according to the British Heart Foundation,) coincides neatly with the month of love.
