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Test Your Health Savvy
Rate your ability to protect yourself from women's biggest threats.

Think you know all about the diseases that are likely to strike your mother, your sister, your best girlfriend — or you? Truth is, myths abound when it comes to women's health — myths that put all of us at risk. Answer the following questions to see how your knowledge measures up, and learn how to protect yourself.
1. What is the number one killer of women of all ages?
a. Breast cancer
b. Heart disease
c. Lung cancer
d. Accidental death

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2. Depression is more prevalent among women than men.
a. True.
b. False.

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3. Which of the following are risk factors for osteoporosis?
a. Being female
b. Being thin and/or having a small frame
c. Cigarette smoking
d. All of the above

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4. Through which of the following is a female in the year 2000 most likely to contract HIV, the virus that causes AIDS?
a. IV drug use
b. A blood transfusion
c. Heterosexual sex
d. Her mother

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5. Which type of cancer kills the most women?
a. Cervical cancer
b. Ovarian cancer
c. Lung cancer
d. Breast cancer

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6. The symptoms of a heart attack are the same for both men and women.
a. True
b. False

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7. While the rarely discussed health threats of complications from cold, flu or pneumonia kill roughly 36,000 women per year, that’s still less than the fatalities from breast cancer; this disease takes the lives of approximately 40,000 women in the U.S. annually.
a. True
b. False

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