Coronary disease is one of the most significant causes of death among women in the United States; it is responsible for one in every three deaths . Advancing age, along with other contributing factors, significantly increases the risk of heart disease, and nearly seven in ten women carry at least one such risk factor.

Unlike cardiac disease in men, heart disease in women often impacts the smaller arteries of the heart, making it harder to detect. Such delays in identification have life-threatening implications for treatment outcomes once the disease is discovered. In addition, women experience chest pain from mental stress more often than men. Further, men more frequently have chest pain from exercise, whereas women experience it from daily activities .

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