Cardiometabolic disease doesn’t appear overnight. For most women, it develops quietly, years or even decades before a diagnosis like type 2 diabetes, hypertension, or heart disease is ever mentioned. What makes this especially concerning is that women often experience different, subtler early warning signs than men. These symptoms are frequently normalized, dismissed, or attributed to stress, aging, hormones, or being “busy.” Fatigue becomes the new normal. Brain fog gets bla