Women & Heart Diseases

  Women with heart disease are more likely to give birth to female rather than male babies.

Cardio Vascular Disease, CVD, which includes heart disease and stroke is the biggest killer of women globally causing 8.6 million deaths annually.

Women in low and middle income countries like Nigeria who develop CVD are more likely to die from it than women in industrialized nations.

A study has found that three quarters of the 216 children born to 200 pregnant women with diagnosed heart disease were female.The report which also reviewed the sex of the children showed that 64 per cent of the women had diagnosed valvular disease.