Women's heart attack was special

American scientists have found interesting differences in the course of myocardial infarction in men and women, and not only that. Researchers at the clinic Uotsana (Lakeland, FL) released a study of myocardial infarction.

For twelve years, from 1994 to 2006, they were collected and analyzed data from 1 to 1 million. Citizens who were hospitalized with a diagnosis myocardial infarction . Of this number was chosen female component in an amount of 480 000 women.

Scientists have found that a significant proportion of women (42%) complained of pain in the chest, while the men did not feel pain in the chest, only 27%. Death rates from heart attack among women (14, 6%), while outnumbered men (10, 3).

It was also found that the risk of such a heart attack, which is not accompanied by chest pain, decreases with age only, and that in general this form of heart attack is diagnosed in women under 55 years of age are much more likely than older women or men.

Kentou professor who led the research suggests that differences among women due to hormonal factors: the menopause in the body decreases the production of the hormone estrogen, which prevents the development of atherosclerosis. That is atherosclerosis - the most common cause of heart attack, which is often called in the young and middle age, spasm of blood vessels of the heart and / or thrombosis.

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