Risk factors for cardiovascular disease in women and men
cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack and stroke are responsible for a large proportion of all deaths worldwide. In a large international study, researchers have now also considered whether risk factors for such diseases differences between Women and men are.
According to the published in the journal “The LancetAccording to an international study published in this study, the risk factors for cardiovascular disease in women and men are largely similar. This is the first such study to include not only people from high-income countries, but also from low- and middle-income countries, where the burden of such diseases is greatest.
Metabolic, behavioral and psychosocial risk factors
As in one Message of Canada’s McMaster University, the global study assessed metabolic, behavioral and psychosocial risk factors for cardiovascular disease in approximately 156,000 people aged 35 to 70 years with no history of cardiovascular disease.
The risk factors included the metabolism (such as hypertension, obesity and diabetes), behavior (smoking and diet) and psychosocial factors (economic status and depression).
The people lived in 21 countries with low, middle and high income on five continents and were observed for an average of ten years.
Women have a lower risk
“Women and men have similar cardiovascular risk factors, emphasizing the importance of a similar strategy for prevention of cardiovascular disease in men and women”said study lead author Marjan Walli-Attaei, a research associate at McMaster University’s Population Health Research Institute (PHRI) and the Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) hospital network.
Overall, women had a lower riskmore likely to develop cardiovascular disease than men, particularly at a younger age.
However, the nutrition more strongly associated with cardiovascular risk in women than in men – “something that has not been previously described and that requires independent confirmation”said Salim Yusuf, the study’s principal investigator, senior author, executive director of PHRI, professor of medicine at McMaster University and cardiologist at HHS.
High values of “bad” (LDL) cholesterol and symptoms of depression were more strongly associated with cardiovascular disease risk in men than in women.
The patterns of these outcomes were generally in high- and upper-middle-income countries and in lower-middle and low-income countries similar. (ad)
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Sources:
- McMaster University: Risk factors for heart disease and stroke largely similar in men and women globally, (Abruf: 11.09.2022), McMaster University
- Marjan Walli-Attaei et al.: Metabolic, behavioural, and psychosocial risk factors and cardiovascular disease in women compared with men in 21 high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries: an analysis of the PURE study; in: The Lancet, (veröffentlicht: 10.09.2022), The Lancet
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