{"id":866067,"date":"2026-09-30T16:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/866067\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T16:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:42:07","slug":"this-leg-condition-overlooked-in-women-can-raise-heart-attack-stroke-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/866067\/","title":{"rendered":"This leg condition overlooked in women can raise heart attack, stroke risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"FWVXN4LLSFCY3OWBR7AVTIXCRE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">When you think of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2025\/07\/28\/science-prevent-heart-disease\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2025\/07\/28\/science-prevent-heart-disease\/\">cardiovascular disease<\/a>, you might envision plaque \u2014 a sticky, waxy substance that builds up in the arteries leading to the heart, where it can cause a heart attack. But arteries run throughout the body, and plaque can accumulate anywhere along this network. When this happens in the legs, it can cause peripheral artery disease (PAD), a condition in which blood flow is restricted to the limbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you think of cardiovascular disease, you might envision plaque \u2014 a sticky, waxy substance that builds up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-866067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}