One in three women get heart disease. It’s essential that women know their individual risk for develping cardiovascular disease.

The American Heart Association has just released its guidelines for preventing cardiovascular disease in women, updated for 2007. The new guidelines feature expanded recommendations on lifestyle changes, nutrition, physical activity and smoking cessation as well as covering HRT, aspirin therapy and some supplements.

In addition you can take the Go Red Heart Checkup test and assess your own risk for developing heart disease.

Read about the new guidelines for women

Take the Go Red Heart Check up