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The American Heart Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine have released a publication that redefines heart health in girls and women. The organizations together outline four distinct "Female Life Stages" offering women and health care professionals a chance to have heart health conversations from puberty through menopause and beyond.

Three manuscripts published in Circulation, are the first coordinated, multisociety framework to prevent, detect and manage cardiovascular disease among girls and women. The publications outline a path to connect care across the clinical specialties that see women throughout their lives.

"Women experience their health care across clinical specialties, but it is often fragmented or disconnected," said Sadiya S. Khan, chair of the collaborative writing group and Magerstadt professor of cardiovascular epidemiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

"Specifically, these reports connect the dots for clinicians, for patients and across health domains so that care is holistic and begins in adolescence, recognizing that women's heart health is uniquely shaped by biological transitions not experienced by men—periods, pregnancy, perimenopause and menopause."

S. each year—more than breast cancer, lung cancer and chronic lung disease combined. Yet only about 4 in 10 (41%) women recognize it as their greatest health threat.

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