📱 Send Us a Text Message! We’d love to hear from you! Please include your name and email address so we can reply. Don’t worry — this won’t sign you up for our email list. We’ll only use your info to respond to your question.Heart disease has long been framed as a “man’s disease” – but women are being missed, misdiagnosed, and overlooked in ways that can be life-threatening, especially within South Asian communities where cardiovascular risk often develops earlier and more aggressively.In this episode, Dr. Komal Patil-Sisodia sits down with advanced imaging and preventative cardiologist, Dr. Ambreen Mohamed, to unpack the evolving science of women’s cardiovascular health, the hormonal shifts that impact risk throughout midlife, and why prevention needs to start far earlier than most people realize.Together, they explore the subtle symptoms women experience that are too often dismissed, the intersection of menopause, PCOS, pregnancy complications, insulin resistance, and heart disease, and why traditional risk calculators frequently fail to capture the realities of South Asian patients. Most importantly, this conversation reframes prevention not as fear-based medicine, but as empowerment: understanding your risk factors early enough to change the trajectory of your health before disease develops.Connect with Dr. Mohamed: LinkedInTikTokInstagramWebsiteConnect with me: LinkedInTikTok InstagramEastside Menopause & Metabolism Audio Stamps :00:00 – Dr. Komal introduces Dr. Ambreen Mohamed and sets up the conversation around women’s cardiovascular health, prevention, and South Asian risk00:00 Podcast Mission Setup01:05 Meet Dr Ambreen Mohamed04:38 Why Women Get Missed07:10 Women’s Heart Attack Symptoms11:18 Hormones Menopause PCOS Risk15:06 Pregnancy As Stress Test18:36 Menopause Hormone Therapy Debate25:59 South Asian Heart Risk Factors28:02 Advanced Lipids Lp(a) ApoB33:07 MASALA Study And Risk Tools36:27 Perimenopause Lp(a) Spike37:18 Estrogen and Lp(a) Research38:11 Who Counts as High Risk39:55 Doctors Still Learning42:12 Labs to Ask For43:31 Insulin Resistance Markers46:15 Beyond Labs and Blood Pressure47:52 Sleep Apnea and Heart Risk48:41 CAC Score When It Helps50:12 CT Angiogram and AI54:32 Lifestyle Changes to Start Now58:48 Advocating at the Doctor01:02:31 Wrap Up and Where to Find Her01:04:25 Final Takeaways and Call to ActionThanks for listening. Find more info about Clearly Hormonal on the website or Instagram.