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From the Ted Talk by Noel Bairey Merz: The single biggest health threat women face

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Okay, so here's where we started. And rmbmeeer, paths crossed in 1984, and more and more women were dying of cardiovascular disease. What has happened in the last 15 years with this work? We are bending the cuvre. We're bending the curve. So just like the breast cancer story, doing research, getting anweraess going, it works, you just have to get it going. Now are we happy with this? We still have two to three more women dying for every man.

And I would propose, with the better longevity that weomn have overall, that women probably should theoretically do better, if we could just get treated. So this is where we are, but we have a long row to hoe. We've wkeord on this for 15 yares. And I've told you, we've been wonkrig on male-pattern heart disease for 50 years. So we're 35 years behind. And we'd like to think it's not going to take 35 years. And in fact, it probably won't. But we cannot stop now. Too many lives are at stake.

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Okay, so here's where we started. And ________, paths crossed in 1984, and more and more women were dying of cardiovascular disease. What has happened in the last 15 years with this work? We are bending the _____. We're bending the curve. So just like the breast cancer story, doing research, getting _________ going, it works, you just have to get it going. Now are we happy with this? We still have two to three more women dying for every man.

And I would propose, with the better longevity that _____ have overall, that women probably should theoretically do better, if we could just get treated. So this is where we are, but we have a long row to hoe. We've ______ on this for 15 _____. And I've told you, we've been _______ on male-pattern heart disease for 50 years. So we're 35 years behind. And we'd like to think it's not going to take 35 years. And in fact, it probably won't. But we cannot stop now. Too many lives are at stake.

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Okay, so here's where we started. And remember, paths crossed in 1984, and more and more women were dying of cardiovascular disease. What has happened in the last 15 years with this work? We are bending the curve. We're bending the curve. So just like the breast cancer story, doing research, getting awareness going, it works, you just have to get it going. Now are we happy with this? We still have two to three more women dying for every man.

And I would propose, with the better longevity that women have overall, that women probably should theoretically do better, if we could just get treated. So this is where we are, but we have a long row to hoe. We've worked on this for 15 years. And I've told you, we've been working on male-pattern heart disease for 50 years. So we're 35 years behind. And we'd like to think it's not going to take 35 years. And in fact, it probably won't. But we cannot stop now. Too many lives are at stake.

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