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Heart Attack Risk in Women Under 50

Uploaded by JayJay on Dec 22, 2004

Heart Attack Risk in Women Under 50

Heart attacks are less common in women then men. However, they do occur and when they do women are more likely to die. Women who have heart attacks normally are worse then men who have heart attacks. Age has played a big role in heart attacks. Men who are older, the risk goes up with age. Women's risk of death is the same up to the age of 75 years old. Scientist are still looking into the reason for this. A study showed that 155,565 women and 229,313men that had heart attacks and were treated at 1,658 hospitals showed that younger women are at high risk and need special attention. This research came from The New England Journal of Medicine.

Another study was also done, which involved 3,662 women and 8,480 men who all had heart problems. This study also showed that women are more likely to die then men. It also said that women, who were at risk, are more likely to a weakened heart muscle and a very low blood pressure. When they performed an electrocardiogram, the results from this were very heard to tell if the woman was having a heart attack or not. This study also showed that women had more complications from the treatment. One of the complications being that they had bleeding from the blood thing drugs that are usually given to patients who have a history of heart attacks.

In women, heart attacks are known to be different from those in men. Blocked arteries are more likely to bring out heart attacks in men. In women, clear arteries were found but yet they were still having heart attacks. It is said that women who were still having these heart attacks were probably caused by spasms in the arteries and large blood clots.

In the United States of America, heart disease is the leading cause of death. The American Heart Association says that 9,000 women aging from 29 to 44 had heart attacks in 1997, in comparison to 32,000 men. The American Heart Association also says that 6.1 percent of the women died from a heart attack and were under the age of 50, this was compared with the 2.9 percent of men. Dr. Viola Vaccarino, who is a professor of epidemiology...

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Uploaded by:   JayJay

Date:   12/22/2004

Category:   Biology

Length:   6 pages (1,319 words)

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