
Oct 9, 2021 - Health
4. Women's heart disease risk rises with COVID

Illustration: Shoshana Gordon/Axios
The pandemic may have put millions of more women — particularly young women — unknowingly on track for heart disease complications.
Driving the news: Several studies have emerged in the past year sounding alarms on how pandemic stressors like the increasingly difficult work-life balance, caregiving burdens and social isolation have left women bearing the brunt of this epidemic.