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Philadelphia Inquirer - April 16, 2010

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Almost every minute, a woman in the U.S. dies of heart disease, and nearly five times as many women will die from heart attacks this year than from breast cancer. "We need to change the idea that heart disease is a man's disease," said Sara Sirna, director of Temple's Institute of Preventive Cardiology. Risk factors for heart disease, however, are the same in men and women: smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, physical inactivity and being overweight. "What we need is TLC: therapeutic lifestyle changes," Sirna said. "The fact is, eating a healthy diet of whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and low saturated fat lowers your risk for heart disease."