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Shalizeh Shokooh, M.D., Co-Medical Director and Cardiologist
Visit Dr. Shalizeh Shokooh, M.D., the Co-Medical Director
Cardiologist of St. Joseph Hospital Women’s Heart Center in Orange, CA
Women and men should know that their risk for heart disease increases for them if they have someone in the family who has had heart disease but their timing is important, whether the parent or the sibling or the grandparent had heart disease, if they are male, before age 55 and if they are female, before age 65.
So age 75 is not as important as it is if the grandfather has his first heart attack at age 55, so the time and age is important.
Dr. Shokooh is also the co-author of Women and Heart Disease, An Epidemic
