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Millennial women are more worried about their mental health than their heart health, according to a new report by the American Heart Association (AHA), Bustle reported March 6. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in women, but the AHA found that more than 75 percent of young women report that they aren't worried about developing the illness. That's because they have other health concerns at the top of their minds, says the AHA, and information about how heart disease affects women just isn't reaching them. The report included information from two preliminary studies in which researchers surveyed 331 women ages 15 to 24 who were waiting for primary care or women's health care appointments at practices and health care centers in Boston, according to the AHA. The researchers found that only 10 percent of the young women identified heart disease as a leading cause of death in women, said the AHA, and most of the respondents weren't worried about developing heart disease. But nearly half of the young women were worried about developing depression or anxiety, the AHA said.