How does heart disease risk in women?

 

Research is identifying gender differences in heart disease that may help fine-tune prevention, diagnosis, and treatment in women. Here are some examples.

• Blood lipids
• Diabetes
• Metabolic syndrome
• Smoking

Blood lipid: Before menopause, a woman's own estrogen helps cover her from heart complaint by adding HDL (good) cholesterol and dwindling LDL (bad) cholesterol. After menopause, women have advanced attention of total cholesterol than men do. But this alone does not explain the unforeseen rise in heart complaint threat after menopause. Elevated triglycerides are an important contributor to cardiovascular threat in women. Low HDL and high triglycerides appear to be the only factors that increase the threat of death from heart complaint in women over age 65.

Diabetes: Diabetesincreases the threat of heart complaint in women further than it does in men, maybe because women with diabetes more frequently have added threat factors, similar as rotundity, hypertension, and high cholesterol. Although women generally develop heart complaint about 10 times latterly than men, diabetes erases that advantage. In women who've formerly had a heart attack, diabetes doubles the threat for a alternate heart attack and increases the threat for heart failure.

Smoking: Women who bomb are more likely to have a heart attack as manly smokers. Women are also less likely to succeed in quitting, and women who do quit are more likely to start again. Also, women may not find nicotine relief as effective, and because the menstrual cycle affects tobacco pull out symptoms they may get inconsistent results with anti smoking specifics.