TROUBLING TREND Heart Disease in Younger Women Often PreventableMonthly or so, Dr. Dieter Lubbe sees another woman in her 30swith heart disease.The cardiologist...Rogers, Adrian
Researchers at Yale University Medical Center in New Haven, Conn. studied 30 women (average age 48) who had suffered a heart attack. And while heart disease is more common in women after menopause — the study proved younger women are still very vulnerable. “Young women represent less than ...
Women generally develop heart disease later in life than men. However, younger women who have premature heart attacks are more likely to die than men of similar age. Risk factors, such as diabetes or high blood pressure, don't explain these mortality differences. In the study, researchers gave...
In comparing the heart disease mortality rates of men and women, the difference is larger in younger age groups, said Dr. Alexandra Lansky, director of the Yale Women’s Heart Center. Among people under 55, women have about twice the mortality rate of men, Lansky said. This difference gets...
Coronary heart disease mortality in younger women could be on the rise, according to findings in the open access journal, BMC Public Health, published by BioMed Central. High levels of smoking, increasing obesity and a lack of exercise could all be contributing to this disturbing trend, seen in...
Women with endometriosis, a chronic, painful condition that affects the reproductive organs, have a higher risk of heart disease.
2 The burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors is disproportionately higher in women of ethnic and racial minorities.3 Black women have the highest rates of obesity of any racial group in the United States, recently exceeding 50%, as well as a higher prevalence of modifiable CVD ...
In an effort to educate women about heart disease at younger ages, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s (NHLBI) The Heart Truth®program launched an initiative calledYes,YOU! The initiative is focused on empowering younger women to know the facts about heart disease, understand th...
But as women aged, that advantage disappeared, and older women who were insulin-resistant had the same heart disease risk factors as men. "Younger women, when they are resistant, are able to handle the complications a lot better," Kim said. Still, it's not clear why younger women have ...
More women are overweight or obese, which can increase the rates of heart disease risk factors like high cholesterol, diabetes, and high blood pressure. But the study also shows that health providers don’t always recognize that a younger woman is at risk of heart attack and/or stroke. That...