<International Circulation>: What’s the biggest misconception about heart disease with respect to women?

    Dr Hochman:Surveys have shown that the biggest misconception is that women are protected from heart disease – that heart disease only affects men. Fortunately with public education campaigns， we have reduced that misconception substantially， although still， more than 40% of women in the United States， do not understand that heart disease is the leading cause of death. They think that breast cancer is， and it is not.