Heart disease is slowly and steadily becoming a major concern for whole world. We Indians are at high risk because our body’s tendency to retail cholesterol is much higher than the rest of the world. So in order to live more we should keep our heart healthy. Most of our ideas about heart disease in women used to come from studying it in men. But there are many reasons to think that it's different in women. A woman's symptoms are often different from a man's, and she's much more likely than a man to die within a year of having a heart attack. The major cause of heart disease in women is diabetes, mental stress and depression, inactivity, consumption of trans and saturated fat, menopause, obesity. To avoid heart disease in women they must avoid consumption of trans and saturated fat, practice meditation, control weight. Significant precautions should be taken by females post menopause.