Improving cardiovascular health in women is an urgent public health priority. Persistent gaps remain in awareness, prevention, and management of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in women. Only 41% of women identify heart disease as the leading cause of death. CVD accounts for >400,000 deaths among US women in 2024, which is more than breast cancer, lung cancer, and chronic lung disease combined. The Advisory describes the current landscape and proposes a novel infrastructure to support expansion of dedicated Comprehensive Centers of Excellence (CCoE) for Women's Cardiovascular Care: interdisciplinary care models built on four interdisciplinary pillars: clinical care, education and training, research, and community partnerships. Integrated pathways spanning disciplines can reduce fragmentation, enable earlier risk identification, and expand women's representation in clinical research. @American_Heart, @AmerAcadPeds, @acog and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine jointly approve this shared model. 📷 Examples of women’s cardiovascular health education topics across medical education and training. ✍🏼 @heartDocSadiya professional.heart.org/en/sc…

A paradigm shift in women’s cardiovascular (CV) care is required. This Female Life Stage framework provides a unifying, person centered approach across the life course beginning with menarche and through the years after menopause to optimize CV health for all girls, women, and their communities. Physiologic changes in sex hormones define clinically distinct life stages: perimenarche, ovarian cycling, perimenopause, postmenopause, each informing female-specific screening, prevention, and management. The peripregnancy period and exposure to exogenous hormone therapy can be considered as cross-cutting modifiers. Premenarche does not have sex-specific guidance for CV health, but is a foundational period to long-term CV health with CV health behaviors and attitudes being developed early. @American_Heart, @AmerAcadPeds, @acog and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine jointly approve this shared model. 📷 Interconnected hormonal, psychosocial, and cardiovascular health across the female life course. ✍🏼 @heartDocSadiya professional.heart.org/en/sc…