Scottish Widows highlights World Heart Day

  World Heart Day is the World Heart Foundation's biggest platform for raising awareness about cardiovascular disease (CVD), which causes more than a quarter (26%) of all deaths in the UK. That's nearly 160,000 deaths each year, or one death every three minutes.[1] And although heart disease is still considered to be a ‘man's disease', there are an estimated 3.5 million women living with CVD in the UK, with around 78,000 dying from conditions such as heart attack and stroke, accounting for a quarter of all female deaths. Many women don't realise they can be at risk of heart dise...