You’ve probably heard that the U.S. death rate from heart disease has been falling for years. In fact, it’s dropped every year since 1980, except for a slight increase in 1993, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But did you know that women have not experienced as great a decline in heart disease deaths as men? As a result, heart disease has killed more women than men in the United States since 1984, says Dr. Alexander Turchin, an endocrinology physician and researcher at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
