Women tend to have more diastolic heart failure.

Women are empowered to be very pro-active about their health like they weren't just 10 years ago. We can make a lot of lifestyle changes without having an appointment at a doctor's office.

There's so much information available for women in the last 10 to 15 years, and it's out there now in magazines, on TV and the Internet.

Women go about taking care of children and they're quick to tell their spouses and friends to run to the emergency room if they have chest pain, but they tend to downplay it if they feel it themselves.

Women think of heart disease as an old person's disease and a good way to die, ... But heart failure is every bit as bad as cancer, and the death rate is higher.

This really is our book for consumers. When you go to the doctor, if you know there's a gender difference, you can be more proactive about your own health, rather than assuming a doctor will be proactive on your behalf.