These findings underscore the need to educate women about their personal risk of cardiovascular disease and educate them that where there is one risk factor present, there are likely more.

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Measuring waist circumference may be a simple method that women can identify themselves as being at increased heart-attack risk and empower them to seek further evaluation and possible treatment from their doctors.

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Women are getting more physical activity, they're eating better, and the really positive benefit they're seeing is that they're not only doing this for themselves but our research studies showed they are taking action for family members, so there really seems to be a domino affect of all this effort to educate women.

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