New Heart Disease Guidelines for Women: Every Life Stage Now Has Its Own Plan

For decades, cardiology treated a woman’s heart like a smaller version of a man’s, and the hormonal transitions she lives through were a footnote. Today the American Heart Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, ACOG, and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine released a joint framework. It puts perimenopause and postmenopause on the same map as your first period and your reproductive years, and it treats every one of those stages as a cardiovascular checkpoint, with its own screening, prevention, and treatment considerations. I had to read it… Video by YouTube channel.