In 2000, the World Health Organization reported that 17 million patients died of cardiovascular disease worldwide that year, with one in three deaths due to cardiovascular disease, a figure that is expected to increase by 50 percent by 2020. in September 2003, the World Health Organization released the results of a study showing that women are more likely to die from cardiovascular disease than men, and that women are twice as likely to die from The number of deaths from heart disease and stroke is twice as high as the number of deaths from all other types of cancer combined. The WHO states that 16.5 million people die each year from cardiovascular disease, 8.6 million of whom are women; most women fear cancer, especially breast cancer, but they take heart disease far less seriously than cancer. At the end of 2006, the American Women’s Health Survey Association published the Women’s Health User’s Guide, saying that heart disease claims the lives of 500,000 American women each year, which is 50,000 more than the number of men who die from heart disease. This data makes cardiovascular disease – formerly a “male patent” has become a major “killer” of women’s lives, which is most coronary heart disease. According to a survey by the U.S. Department of Health, African-American, Hispanic and Latina women, including Asian women, are more likely to suffer from heart disease than white women because they are more likely to suffer from obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes than white women. Faced with the serious challenge of cardiovascular disease, medical professionals should inform about the characteristics of women suffering from coronary heart disease. According to the relevant information and years of clinical experience, the following points deserve attention: 1. Compared with men, women have their own characteristics of coronary heart disease, and familiarity with these characteristics is necessary for the prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease in women. In terms of the incidence of coronary heart disease, the ratio of men to women in patients over 50 years of age is 1.5 to 4.0:1. It is generally believed that coronary heart disease occurs 10 years later in women than in men, while the incidence in women increases significantly after menopause. This suggests that we should be cautious in diagnosing coronary artery disease in women aged 40 to 50 years, while women aged over 60 years should be more vigilant. 2, Exercise ECG test is the most convenient non-invasive means for initial screening of early coronary heart disease. According to the American literature, the false-positive rate of this test is as high as 21% in women, while in men it is only for 7%. False-positive exercise tests occur three times more frequently in women than in men. There are many reasons for this, but so far it is not possible to answer this question scientifically. Clinical experiments have shown that women aged 40 to 50 years have more chances of non-specific ST-segment T-wave changes in the quiet ECG, and the proportion of non-coronary heart disease is actually higher than that of men, so clinical work should prevent a hasty underground diagnosis of coronary heart disease simply according to the only existing ST-T changes in the ECG. 3, foreign data also show that the death rate of women suffering from acute myocardial infarction is higher than that of men, especially after menopause, the reasons for this are not only gender differences, but also more complex factors; some people believe that once coronary heart disease occurs in women, the prognosis is worse than that of men. Oral contraceptives can increase blood pressure and lipids, reduce glucose tolerance and increase the chance of thrombosis; women under 35 years of age without blood pressure and lipid abnormalities are relatively safe to take contraceptives; women over 35 years of age taking oral contraceptives have increased rates of acute myocardial infarction, cerebrovascular disease and thromboembolism in other organs. Therefore, women over 36 years of age who have factors predisposing to coronary heart disease (hypertension, hyperlipidemia, smoking, diabetes, etc.) should not take the pill. Female patients suffering from hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia is a high incidence of coronary heart disease. 4, obesity, especially abdominal fat size and the development of coronary heart disease in middle-aged women. In our country, the number of overweight people is about 200 million, obese people have 60 million people. Overweight and obese people are more likely to suffer from hypertension, dyslipidemia and diabetes. According to a study by foreign researchers, women with a waist circumference of 75 centimeters or more have twice the risk of coronary heart disease as slim women. American scientists spent eight years studying 45,000 women aged 40 to 65 who had not suffered from coronary heart disease, stroke or cancer. The scientists compared their waist and hip ratios and waist circumference to determine the women’s risk of coronary heart disease. They found that women with a waist-to-hip ratio of 0.88 or higher had 3.25 times the risk of heart disease than women with a ratio less than that; women with a waist circumference of 95 centimeters or more had three times the risk of coronary heart disease. 5, many women in the month before the onset of heart disease, there will be an unusual fatigue and sleep disruption phenomenon. Scientists at the University of Arizona surveyed 500 women with heart disease and found that 95 percent of the patients said they had a variety of unusual symptoms in the month before the onset of the disease. Among them, 71% had unusual and unexplained fatigue; 48% had sleep disturbances; 42% had shortness of breath; and 35% had anxiety symptoms. For this reason, experts urge women to pay attention to these subtle signs and prevent possible heart disease crisis early. 6, women with unhealthy lifestyle and diet habits are prone to coronary heart disease, such as smoking, eating unhealthy foods high in sugar, fat and salt, as well as liking sedentary, lack of exercise, alcoholism and staying up late, can damage women’s health. So women are reminded that if they can pay attention to these early signs of heart attack, they can treat or prevent the possible disease early.