Menopause increases cardiovascular risk in women

More than three out of ten deaths in Spain are due to cardiovascular disease, although in the case of women the risk is more closely associated with the onset of menopause, said today the Spanish Association for the Study of Menopause (AEEM).

In women, cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death, which is the responsible for 35.10 percent of deaths.

This is due, according to Llaneza MD, to the drop in estrogen that occurs with menopause is associated with different mechanisms related to disease, such as atherosclerosis development, altering the activity of myocytes, impaired vascular reactivity and changes in lipid profile.

According to the Spanish Society of Cardiology, from age 50, 50 percent of women have hypertension and one in three, diabetes or disorders of metabolism of carbohydrates or high cholesterol.

The risk also “increases when menopause arrives early,” reported Llaneza because women “spend more years without cardio-protection associated with estrogen.”

Llaneza suggested that women “tend to worry about weight gain after menopause, but not related to cardiovascular risk.”

There are other risk factors tha123t can be unavailable care off, for this reason, Llaneza explained that doctors have to “analyse” these factors for each woman and “consider that the best primary prevention is the abandonment of snuff, weight regulation, blood glucose and lipid profile, as well as the practice of aerobic exercise”

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