THE STATISTICS ON HEART DISEASE IN WOMEN:
* Is the No.1 killer of Australian women
* Claims 24 female lives every day (8702 deaths in 2015).
* Kills more than three times as many women as breast cancer
* Is responsible for one in nine premature deaths in women
* More than 48,000 women are treated in hospital for heart disease each year
* More than 1.3 million, or 31 per cent, have at least three risk factors
* Close to 100,000 women aged 18-44 have five risk factors
RISK FACTORS:
* High blood pressure - About one in 10, or 425,000, women aged 18-44 have high blood pressure
* High cholesterol - More than one in five, or approx 900,000, women have high cholesterol
* Obesity - more than 1 million women (46 per cent) are overweight and close to 1 million women aged 18-44 (22 per cent) are obese
* Tobacco smoking - More than 650,000 women aged 18-44 (15 per cent) smoke.
* Inactivity - close to 1.3 million women do not exercise at all. Only 56 per cent of women aged 18-44 are sufficiently active
(Source: Heart Foundation, Australian Bureau of Statistics, AIHW)
