2023-05-03 03:02:26
“We believe that young women have more risk factors for cardiovascular disease than men. Generally this premenopausal group is protected by its own hormone estrogen, which reduces the frequency of heart attacks. This is a physiological protection, but we are sure that due to it there is a high accumulation of risk factors, such as obesity, high blood pressure, cholesterol plaques. A woman ignores health problems for a long time, but then comes the “breakthrough effect” “The body can’t keep up,” says Mitsuaki Sawano, MD, PhD, of the Center for Research and Evaluation of Outcomes at Yale New Haven Hospital and lead author of the study.
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