Heart disease, also known as cardiovascular disease, is a disorder that affects the heart. Heart disease is the leading cause of death among most ethnicities in the United States, including African Americans, Hispanics, and whites. For American Indians or Alaska Natives and Asian or Pacific Islanders, heart disease is the second leading cause of death. Although heart disease is often considered a male problem, more women than men die from it each year. The most common heart attack symptom in women is some type of pain, pressure, or discomfort in the chest. Some women can have a heart attack without chest pain. Women are more likely than men to have heart attack symptoms that are not related to chest pain, such as discomfort in the neck, jaw, shoulders or upper back, shortness of breath, nausea or vomiting, sweating, dizziness or dizziness, unusual tiredness, and straight arm. pain. Mental stress can also trigger heart attack symptoms in women. Heart disease risk and heart disease risk factors are strongly linked to family history. For example, if a mother has a stroke, the child in the family is more likely to have one. Family history provides a picture of the environment and genetics in place when these diseases occur. Genetics cannot be changed, so if a patient has a family history of heart disease, they must change their environment. This means reducing risk by changing behaviors that may increase the risk of heart disease or stroke. Ways to change behavior include adopting better eating habits, engaging in physical activity and eliminating smoking. Examples of heart diseases in men and women are coronary heart disease, angina, arrhythmia, congenital heart disease, dilated cardiomyopathy, myocardial infarction, heart failure and... . middle of paper ...... and to develop heart failure at a later age than men.• Depression is frequently associated with heart failure and is more common in women than in men.• Women tend to have more symptoms such as shortness of breath and more difficulty exercising than men• In general, women survive longer than men with heart failure. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetic disorder in which the wall of the left ventricle becomes thick, making it more difficult for blood to flow out of the heart. The heart has to work harder to pump blood. It is the leading cause of sudden death among athletes. A father or mother with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy has a fifty percent chance of passing the disease to their children. Women with HCM are at higher risk of occupational, advanced heart failure, or death. Different social, endocrine or genetic factors in men and women may affect the diagnosis of HCM.