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VIDEO: Awareness of CVD in women increasing, but ‘still a long way to go’

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SANTA ANA PUEBLO, N.M. — In this video, Lori Mosca, MD, MPH, PhD, highlights achievements in raising awareness of heart disease among women and focuses for the future.

Movements like the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women have put a spotlight on CVD in women.

“We’ve doubled the rate of awareness of heart disease as the leading killer among women … [and] this has also been associated with a decline in the incidence of heart disease in women [and there have been] some improvements in lifestyle and risk factor behaviors. But we still have a long way to go,” Mosca, professor of medicine at Columbia University Medical Center and director of preventive cardiology at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, told Cardiology Today.

Mosca discusses current research at her center focused on raising awareness of the importance of sleep disturbances in women as a CV risk factor.

Watch the video for more.