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What recent studies show about ovarian, endometrial and breast cancer, what the Rutgers trial is testing, and where the heart evidence stands.
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What belongs in your heart history?
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Your heart history is bigger than today’s blood pressure or cholesterol result. Pregnancy, menopause, family history, blood sugar, symptoms, old tests and even changes in what your body can do may belong in the same story.
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There is still no FDA-approved testosterone product for women in the U.S. What should you know about the benefit, the dose and your heart health before saying yes?
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Your Pregnancy Was Years Ago. Your Heart Still Remembers.
Lisa shares her own experience and offers practical ways to bring pregnancy history into a heart-health conversation, even decades later.
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Before Your Next AppointmentPractical questions for the conversation with your clinician.
Heart symptoms & testingSymptoms, blood pressure and what tests can tell you.
- Your legs can tell you something about your heart
- What does the gap between your blood-pressure numbers mean?
- Heart attack symptoms in women: when to call 911
- Can women have heart symptoms with a normal EKG?
- Menopause heart palpitations at night
- Low iron can hide behind a normal blood count
- Heart Tests, in Plain English
Hormones & menopauseChanges in midlife and questions about hormone treatment.
- New ACP guidance: hot flashes, hormone therapy and your heart history
- Perimenopause quiz: Could I be in perimenopause?
- Taking hormones for hot flashes? What does the new heart study mean?
- Why do I keep getting UTIs after menopause?
- How hormones affect women’s heart health
- Could your hot flashes be telling you more than you think?
- Why cholesterol can rise around menopause
- Perimenopause and high blood pressure
- Is hormone therapy safe for the heart?
Cholesterol & family historyUnderstand your results and what may run in your family.
- Which fiber helps lower cholesterol? What newer studies show
- The heart-risk test that may deserve a second look at menopause
- What do the 2026 cholesterol guidelines mean for women?
- Should women get a coronary calcium scan?
- What does a high Lp(a) result mean?
- ApoB vs. LDL: what does an ApoB test show?
- How to track blood pressure and cholesterol trends
- Four parts of women’s heart health
Pregnancy, after birth & the NICUYour own heart health during pregnancy, after birth and years later.
- Twins, TTTS and preemie family support
- Heart health during and after pregnancy
- NICU moms: heart health and postpartum care
- Heart failure after pregnancy: peripartum cardiomyopathy
- Your heart health after a complicated twin pregnancy
- Does my pregnancy history matter to my kidneys too?
- Does preeclampsia affect heart health later in life?
- Does gestational diabetes affect heart health later?
- Add pregnancy details to my Heart Story
Weight, medicines & strengthQuestions about weight-loss medicines, strength and daily activity.
- Taking a GLP-1? What are we following besides weight?
- Weight-loss medicine and menopause hormones: what does the study mean?
- Your friend lost more on the same medicine. Why?
- Can a GLP-1 change how you feel about alcohol?
- GLP-1 weight loss, heart health, and muscle
- What happens when you stop a GLP-1?
- Peptide therapy: what is actually proven?
- Why do stairs feel harder in midlife?
- Make a 12-week plan with your care team
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- Menopause and muscle strength: what are we learning?
- Hot flashes deserve treatment. Your heart history belongs in the decision.
- Could GLP-1 medicines change cancer prevention?
- You have three questions. Which one should you ask first?
- Low Iron Can Hide Behind a Normal Blood Count
- What Parts of My Health History Actually Matter to My Heart?
- Why Do I Keep Getting UTIs After Menopause?
- Lp(a) and Menopause: Should You Repeat the Test?
- You Were Told to Eat More Fiber. Which Kind Helps Cholesterol?
- Your Legs Can Tell You Something About Your Heart
- Taking a GLP-1? Ask More Than “How Much Weight Did I Lose?”
- What Do My Kidneys Have to Do With My Heart?
- Taking a Weight-Loss Medicine? Should You Ask About Hormones?
- Your Friend Lost More on the Same Medicine. Why?
- Your Blood Pressure Has Two Numbers. What Does the Gap Mean?
- The Cholesterol Guidelines Changed. Here’s What Women Should Know.
- Taking Hormones for Hot Flashes? What Do the Heart Studies Mean?
- American Women Are Using More Testosterone. Why Are the Products Still Made for Men?
- My GLP-1 changed how I feel about alcohol. Is that real?
- Before You Get a Calcium Scan, Ask This
- Could Your Hot Flashes Be Telling You More Than You Think?
- What Happens When You Stop a GLP-1?
- Does Gestational Diabetes Affect Heart Health Later?
- What Can a Heart Attack Feel Like in Women?
- How Do Hormones Affect Women’s Heart Health?
- The Warning Changed. What Actually Changed With It?
- The Weight Is Coming Off. Am I Losing Muscle Too?
- Why Is My Blood Pressure Suddenly Higher at 45?
- Everyone Is Talking About Peptides. What Are They Actually?
- Why Is My Heart Racing at Night?
- What Is HEART RESERVE—and Why Does It Matter in Midlife?
- Why Did My Cholesterol Change When My Periods Changed?
- The Cholesterol Test You May Never Have Had
- Normal According to What?
- Preeclampsia and Your Heart Health Later in Life
- FLOW, BEAT, PUMP, POWER: A Better Map of the Heart
- When Stairs Feel Different
- A Lab Result Is a Photograph. Your Trend Is the Movie.