Cardiovascular Disease

Heart Disease Kills More Women in Poorer Neighborhoods

Published in Women's Health Weekly, June 29th, 1998

Women in the U.S. who live in neighborhoods where many families are headed by women are more likely to die from heart disease than women who live in neighborhoods with a greater proportion of two-parent families, new research has shown.

This, the researchers say, may account in part for why African-American women die more often from heart disease than do white women even though they experience heart disease at similar rates.

Writing in the June 1998 issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Felicia B. LeClere, PhD, now at the University of Notre Dame, and her colleagues reported their conclusions from analysis of five years of data from the...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (1998-06-29)

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