Dr. Martha Gulati, MD: Women's Heart Disease, Female-Specific Risk Factors, and What Medicine Gets Wrong About Cardiovascular Health

Heart disease is not only a man's disease. It is the number one killer of women, responsible for ten times more deaths than breast cancer. And yet most women have never had a real conversation about their cardiovascular risk, because the medical system was not built to catch it in them.

Dr. Martha Gulati is the Director of Preventive Cardiology and Associate Director of the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center at Cedars-Sinai, Director of the Davis Women's Heart Center at Houston Methodist, and author of Saving Women's Hearts. Her own quote has become one of the most cited lines in women's cardiology: "Heart disease is the number one killer of women, but lack of awareness is a close second."

This conversation goes into how the female heart develops disease differently, why women's symptoms get dismissed even when they use the words chest pain, and the pregnancy complications, hormonal history, and inflammatory conditions that quietly raise cardiovascular risk for decades before anything shows up on a standard panel.

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What we cover:

• How women's heart attack symptoms differ from men and why they still get dismissed in the ER

• Why women wait longer, receive fewer tests, and are less likely to see a cardiologist when they arrive with chest pain

• The labs every woman should ask for, including LP(a), high-sensitivity CRP, and ApoB, with specific reference ranges

• Why women get more cardiovascular benefit per minute of exercise than men, and what the exercise prescription actually looks like

• Mediterranean diet, hidden salt, sleep, and the lifestyle foundations that move the needle

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