Heart Disease in Women

Heart disease is thought of to be more of a health problem Heart disease risk factors for women for men as compared to women. However, it's the most several traditional risk factors for coronary artery disease common cause of death for both women and men around such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure and obesny the world. Because some heart disease symptoms in affect both women and men. But other factors can pray women can differ from those in men, women often don't hinder role in the development of heart disease in women, know what to look for.

Heart disease risk factors for women include: Fortunately, by learning their unique heart disease symptoms, women can begin to reduce their risks.

Heart attack symptoms for women

The most common heart attack symptom in women is the same as in men with some type of chest pain, pressure or discomfort that lasts more than a few minutes or comes and goes. But chest pain is not always severe or even the most noticeable symptom, particularly in women. Women often describe it as pressure or tightness. Also, it's possible to have a heart attack without chest pain.

Women are more likely than men to have heart attack symptoms unrelated to chest pain, such as:

• Neck, jaw, shoulder, upper back or abdominal discomfort
• Shortness of breath
• Painin one or both arms
• Nausea
• Sweating
• Lighthea
• Unusual fat
• Indigestior

These symptoms may be vague and not as noticeable as the crushing chest pain often associated with heart attacks. This might be cause women tend to have blockages not only in their main arteries but also in the smaller ones that supply blood to the heart a condition called small vessel heart disease or coronary micro vascular disease.

Women tend to have symptoms more often when resting of even when asleep, than they do in men. Emotional stress can play a role in triggering heart attack symptoms in women.

Because women don't always recongnize their symptoms as those of a heart attack, they tend to show up in emergency rooms after significant heart damage has already occurred, also because their symptoms often differ from me'ns, women might be diagnosed less often with heart disease than men are.

If you have symptoms of a heart attack or think  you are having one, call for emergency medical help immediately don't drive yourself to the emergency room unless you have no other options.

Heart Disease risk factors for women

Saveral traditional risk factors for coronary artery disease such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure and obesity affect both women and men. but other factors can play a bigger role in the development of heart disease in women. Heart disease frisk factors for women include:-

• Disease:- Women with diabetes are more likely to develop heart disease than are men with diabetes. Also because diabetes can change the way you feel pain, you are at greater risk of having a silent heart attack without systems.

• Mental stress and depression:- Stress and depression affect women's hearts more than men's. Depression makes it difficult to maintain a healthy lifestyle and follow recommended treatment.

• Smoking:- Smoking is a greater risk factor for heart disease in women than it is in men.

• Inactivity:- A lake of physical activity is a major risk factor for heart disease. some research has found women to be less active than men.

• Menopause:- Low levels of  estrogen after menopause pose significant risk of developing disease in smaller blood vessels.

• Pregnancy complications:- High blood pressure or diabetes during pregnancy can increase the mothers long term risk of high blood pressure and diabetes. The conditions also make women more likely to get heart disease.

• Family history of early heart disease:- This appears to be a greater risk factor in women than in men.

• Inflammatory disease:- Rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and others can increase the risk of heart disease in both men and women.

• Women of all ages should take heart disease seriously especially those with a family history of heart disease also need to pay attention to heart disease risk factors.

What can women do to reduce their risk of heart disease?

Living a healthy lifestyle can help reduce the risk of heart disease. Try these heart disease strategies:-

• Quit smoking
• Maintain a healthy weight
• Manage your stress
• Follow your treatment plan
• Manage other healthy conditions
• Exercise regularly
• Eat a healthy diet
• Limit alcohol

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