Heart Disease and Women. Heart disease is not primarily "the Male" disease. Women can also die from related heart diseases such as Mrs. Mallard in "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. Heart disease and contributing risk factors such as smoking, diabetes, obesity, and high blood pressure can cause the following problems: atheroma, congestive heart failure, heart valve problems, and eventually she would have to have a heart transplant. In the short story "The …showed first 75 words of 1405 total…

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