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Angela Alsobrooks: “Heart disease [is] the leading killer of women, not only in…”

Featuring: Angela Alsobrooks, Democratic | U.S. Senate Maryland

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Ossoff Addresses Black Women Leaders in Atlanta | 07.24.2026

Published | Video Starts at 17:18

But we only assign.03% of all federal research dollars go to a condition that affects 80% of all American women by their 50th birthday. I know that that is true as well. Here in Georgia, we think about Heart disease [is] the leading killer of women, not only in a place like Maryland, it's also the leading killer, I'm sure, here in Georgia. all across the country. So these are issues that we're going to have to continue to fight to make sure that we are also giving specific attention to these conditions, diseases. (17:18–17:28)

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Asserts that heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in Maryland and likely in Georgia.

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