Of course, the flip side is that the more physically active she is, the lower her risks.
Many studies have shown that the less physically active a woman is, the higher her risks are for cardiovascular disease and breast cancer. Heart disease and breast cancer: How much exercise is needed? What's more, there are two big risk categories that we can do something about: exercise and diet. Here's what's really interesting, though: heart disease and breast cancer share many of the same risk factors.
Almost 50 million women have cardiovascular disease, which encompasses heart disease and strokes and causes one in three deaths. Yet only about 50% of women realize that they are at greater risk from heart disease than from anything else.Ĭurrently in the US, three million women are living with breast cancer, which causes one in 31 deaths. This is true for women of all races and ethnicities. But women have a greater risk of dying from heart disease than from all cancers combined. Very often I encounter women who are far more worried about breast cancer than they are about heart disease.
