Dr Jane Morgan is a cardiologist from the US who's on my podcast today.

We talk about cardiovascular disease and hormones.

It's a really important topic because globally, the commonest cause of death in women is cardiovascular disease.

And we know the incidence increases when we're menopausal.

So it's a wonderful conversation where I hope

you will just think differently about your heart, your blood pressure, maybe your brain as well.

So enjoy. So Jane, it's great to have you on my podcast. We're going to be talking about

heart disease or cardiovascular disease,

actually. And cardiovascular disease is number one killer of women globally. Yet if you Google

heart attack, it will be a man clutching his heart and it's not really thought about for women.

And I've got a medical background. I did quite a lot of

cardiology as a junior doctor. And I never really thought about heart disease and women, which I

feel very embarrassed about. I didn't think about hormones because I wasn't taught about hormones.

But when you understand how our basic hormones, estrogen, progester, and testosterone,

work on our cardiovascular system, we can't keep ignoring it.

But let's just start really basically.

Like, what is cardiovascular disease?

And why are you interested in it?

Well, to your viewers, I'm a cardiologist, so I'm definitely interested in cardiovascular

disease, and it really developed more of an interest in women just from noticing symptoms,

really during my internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship. I mean, we're talking

two or three decades ago now, and I would notice that we have a nomenclature, which is actually the way that physicians

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