Even if women seem to be at a disadvantage when it comes to cardiovascular health, a healthy lifestyle is at least as beneficial for them as it is for men.
For example, the heart and circulatory system can be trained just as well through sport, and women benefit even more from not smoking and a heart-healthy diet. A heart health test is highly recommended. Especially for women – ask us for an appointment.
In February found a nationwide day of action held to draw attention to heart disease in women.
Everyone knows that men and women “tick” differently. But there are also important differences in the heart and circulatory system.
- On average, women have a smaller heart: the heart pumps less blood and therefore oxygen into the body with each beat, so that it has to beat more often to supply the organs – the heartbeat is faster.
- The composition of the blood differs: women have almost a quarter less hemoglobin in their blood. Since hemoglobin carries oxygen in the blood, the oxygen supply to the organs in women is consequently somewhat lower than in men with a comparable state of health. Incidentally, the oxygen supply decreases with age – in men by around 1% per year, in women only by 0,8% per year.
- An unhealthy lifestyle has a faster negative impact on the cardiovascular system in women than in men. When smoking, for example, the harmful substances are more likely to be deposited in the finer bronchi and vessels, and there is also an increased cardiovascular risk in smokers who take the birth control pill.
- With the thinner arteries, less plaque is enough to narrow them dramatically, and statistically, type 2 diabetes increases the risk of a heart attack by more than two-fold compared to men.
- Women have other heart attack symptoms that can be misinterpreted: The proportion of so-called silent heart attacks, i.e. heart attacks without typical chest pain, is higher in women because women contract the disease later than men - but the typical heart attack symptom of chest pain is felt less and less with increasing age . Shortness of breath, nausea, vomiting and upper abdominal pain are often the only symptoms that occur in women with a heart attack or acute coronary syndrome as a precursor to a heart attack.
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