Heart Attacks Increase Among Women
According to recent articles published by Health News of NorthShore University HealthSystem and WebMD Health News, there has been an increase of heart attacks in middle-aged women. Researchers studied a group of 8,000 men and women aged 35-54 from1988 to 1994, and 1999 to 2004. Results show that risk factors for heart attack such as cholesterol levels, blood pressure and smoking status improved among men and worsened among women. Diabetes, a strong risk factor for heart disease, increased for both men and women, probably because of increased obesity among both sexes. Although men had more heart attacks than women during both periods, the gap narrowed from 2.5% of men and 0.7% of women reporting a heart attack to 2.2% and 1% of women.
On the bright side, in a study taken between 1994 and 2006, it was found that the number of people who died in hospitals after a heart attack has dramatically decreased. And the majority of these patients were women. In fact, the decrease in death rate was three times larger in women under the age of 55 than in men of the same age group. Studies are showing that the death rate decrease after heart attack is also becoming apparent in older men and women.
For more information, visit the Cardiovascular Care Center of NorthShore University HealthSystem
No related posts.
Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
