American Heart Association NYC honors Domestic Violence Awareness Month by funding nonprofit that provides housing to victims of domestic violence and their children
DOMESTIC ABUSE MAY DO LONG-TERM DAMAGE TO WOMEN’S HEART HEALTH According to research published earlier this year in the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA), women exposed to domestic abuse were 31% more likely to develop cardiovascular disease than women who had not experienced abuse. In the U.S. one in four women has experienced