Although men have a higher infarct risk than women, the latest studies suggest that certain risk factors have a greater impact on the risk of women than on men.The 'enemies number 1' for women are tobacco, diabetes and high blood pressure, ensures a study that is published in "BMJ" that has analyzed the data of almost half a million people registered in the biobanco of the United Kingdom,a biological information database of British adults.
The 471,998 people had no history of cardiovascular disease, the age ranged between 40 and 69 years and 56% were women.During an average of seven years, 5,081 people (29% women) suffered their first heart attack, which means that the incidence of infarction was 7,76 for 10,000 people years in women, compared to 24.35 people per 10,000People years.
"Hypertension, smoking and diabetes was associated with a higher risk of myocardial infarction both in women and men, but with an excessive relative risk among women," says the authors.
Although arterial hypertension, diabetes and tobacco increased the risk of heart attack in both sexes, its impact was much greater on women.
no tobacco
Thus, for example, smoking increased the risk of a heart attack in a woman by 55% more than in a man, while high blood pressure in 83%.
diabetes
As for type II diabetes, which is generally associated with a poor diet and other lifestyle factors, had an impact of 47% higher on the risk of infarction on women than in men, while in the caseof type I diabetes the impact was almost three times greater women.
According to researchers, this is the first study that analyzes the absolute and relative differences in the risk of heart attack between the sexes in a range of risk factors in a general population, but emphasize that it is an observational study, so notFirm conclusions can be drawn."Women should, at least, receive the same access to treatments based on diabetes guidelines and hypertension, and resources to help lose weight and quit smoking, like men," they conclude.
infarction symptoms in female
A woman does not have to experience the same symptoms as a man when she suffers a heart attack.In fact, they often have atypical and late symptoms, which hinders diagnosis and raises the risk of death.For this reason it is important that you are clear what are the signs that indicate that you or another woman are suffering a heart attack.The faster you act, the more time to manage the heart attack.The signals are:
Uncomfortable pressure in the chest, a feeling of pain in the center of the chest that can last a few minutes, or disappear and reappear.
Pain in one or both arms, in the back, neck, jaw or stomach.
Lack of air, accompanied or not in chest pain.
Cold sweat, nausea or dizziness.
As in men, the most common infarction symptom among women is chest pain or discomfort.The difference is that, in the case of women, there is a greater tendency to experience other common symptoms, in particular lack of air, nausea, vomiting and back pain or jaw.
