Political Quotes

“The only part of this bill that is a new authorization deals with research in heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases in women. During a women's health seminar, a program that my office put on in Medina, Ohio some time ago, a cardiovascular surgeon, a female cardiovascular surgeon from Cleveland pointed out to us something that I think women across the country are too often unaware of. That is that while men more often have heart attacks than women do, women are more often, more likely to die of heart attacks than men because women do not really think of themselves as likely victims of heart disease because our society, for whatever reason, has led most of us to believe that men get heart attacks and women get other diseases. And so I think it is particularly important that more research is done on this. It is particularly important that we do better education, among women especially.”