By Peggy O'Farrell
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Lynette Price, 41, needs medication to keep her heart from beating too fast.
Her 16-year-old daughter, Kristen, was 15 months old when she had surgery to correct a backflow of blood within her heart.
Patricia Baas, now 46, thought she might have pulled a muscle in her back, but wound up in the emergency room with a heart attack. She was 39.
Cindy Hodson, 35, and Rita Logan, 42, each underwent a heart transplant. Hodson's heart failed because of a birth defect. Logan believes prescription diet pills caused her heart to fail.
One in five women has some form of heart disease, whether a congenital defect or hardening of the arteries caused by an unlucky combination of diet, inactivity and genetics. About half a million American women die each year from heart disease.
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