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Lucylastic -> RE: Carrie Fisher's death puts spotlight on women's heart disease (12/28/2016 11:26:54 PM)
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This came from 2011 in a british news paper,
The sex hormone oestrogen protects women from heart attacks and may explain why they are far less likely to be struck down than men, claim scientists.
They have discovered that this naturally-occurring chemical helps stop blood cells sticking to the walls of arteries and forming potentially fatal blockages.
Researchers from Queen Mary at the University of London think their findings may explain why women are far more likely to suffer heart attacks after the menopause, when their oestrogen levels decline.
Around one in five men in Britain die from a heart attack, compared to just one in seven women.
But while very few women suffer heart attacks before their 50s, the risk suddenly increases after the menopause when they are just as likely to be struck down than men.
Until recently experts have struggled to explain why younger women are less likely to develop heart disease and suffer heart attacks.
Now research published in the journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology claims that the hormone oestrogen may protect them.
But experts say their findings do not necessarily mean that oestrogen could ever be used in drugs to prevent heart disease.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2025008/Why-women-fewer-heart-attacks-Oestrogen-protects-heart-disease.html#ixzz4UD11fg6s
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SO its only been five or six years that women have been "classed" as different to men regarding risk and symptoms.
And you wanna bitch about men not being researched..... the american heart foundation and Goredforwomen says this about the differences specifically
Women ages 18-55 years old tend to be less healthy and have a poorer quality of life than similar-aged men before suffering a heart attack, according to research presented at the American Heart Association’s Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2013.
“Compared with young men, women under 55 years are less likely to have heart attacks. But, when they do occur, women are more likely to have medical problems, poorer physical and mental functioning, more chest pain and a poorer quality of life in the month leading up to their heart attack,” says Rachel Dreyer, Ph.D., the study’s lead author and a research fellow in cardiovascular medicine at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT.
Heart Attack Risk Factors for Women: Why Women Suffer More
Researchers surveyed 2,990 women and men from an international study of heart attack patients 18-55 years old. They used general health measures and a disease-specific questionnaire that assessed patients’ chest pain and quality of life prior to their heart attacks. They found:
Women had a poorer physical and mental health with more physical limitations prior to their heart attacks than similar-aged men with heart attacks.
The women were also more likely than men to have other conditions associated with heart disease:
diabetes (40 percent vs. 27 percent)
obesity (55 percent vs. 48 percent)
history of stroke (6 percent vs. 3 percent)
heart failure (6 percent vs. 2 percent)
renal failure (13 percent vs. 9 percent)
depression (49 percent vs. 24 percent).
“These data suggest that young women were suffering more from their heart disease than young men prior to their heart attack,” Dreyer says.
“We need to develop better methods for recognizing and treating young women with chest pain to optimize their quality of life and potentially even prevent a heart attack.
General health and disease-specific health status assessments are valuable tools for healthcare providers to measure the burden of disease on patients. These should be standardized into clinical practice, much like assessments for other traditional heart disease risk factors.”
Researchers used data from the VIRGO study (Variation in Recovery: Role of Gender on Outcomes of Young AMI Patients), funded by the National, Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
https://www.goredforwomen.org/about-heart-disease/heart_disease_research-subcategory/heart-attack-risk-factors-women-vs-men/
VIrgo study
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21081748
I know Im wasting my time with Nick and the other goobers, but someone might get some use out of it, ...
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