DR MAX PEMBERTON: Heart disease kills twice as many women as breast cancer. Yet doctors often miss these symptoms. It’s the hidden killer of women over 40

As a champion of women’s fitness and wellbeing, Davina McCall has long been a trusted voice in highlighting important health issues faced by women in mid-life and beyond.

Not only has she been influential in urging women to take the menopause seriously but she’s also been remarkably candid about her brain tumour and breast cancer treatments – speaking out in the hope her experience would help others.

So her disclosure last week, in her podcast Begin Again, that she also has cardiovascular disease, was typically brave as well as important.

Davina, 59, said she’d had high cholesterol for ‘quite a long time’, emphasising

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