LUCY MARTIN is a senior cardiac nurse at the British Heart Foundation
It’s easy to think of heart health as a mainly male concern. But keeping your heart healthy, whatever your age, is vital for all women. Of the 7 million people living with heart and circulatory disease in the UK today, 3.5 million are men and 3.5 million women. It’s the UK’s second biggest killer (after dementia), and doesn’t discriminate by sex.