Smoking Raises Women’s Heart Attack Risk More Than Men’s Risk | @Trending Pink at PHARMATIVE.com
Smoking, diabetes and high blood pressure all raise women’s heart attack risk to a greater extent than these factors do for men.
Publishing their findings in BMJ, British researchers studied a population of 472,000 people, 56 percent of them women, who had no history of cardiovascular disease. The study cohort had a median age of 56 years old and ranged between 40 and 69 years old.
During an average of seven years of follow-up, 5,081 participants, 29 percent of whom were women, had a heart attack. This translated to a heart attack rate per 10,000 cumulative years of follow-up of 7.7 heart attacks among women and 24.4 among men.
Smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure and having a body mass index (BMI) greater than 25 (the threshold for being overweight) were all associated with an increased risk of having a heart attack. For men, currently smoking was tied to a doubled risk of heart attack, while among women smoking was associated with more than three times the risk.
This so-called excess risk was also seen among women compared with men for high blood pressure (tied to an 80 percent higher relative risk among women), type 1 diabetes (nearly three times higher risk) and type 2 diabetes (47 percent higher risk), although not with for having a high BMI.
When the study authors controlled for the effects of aging, they found this narrowed, but did not eliminate, the relative risks associated with smoking, diabetes and high blood pressure. Regardless of older age, women still maintained an excess risk of heart attack compared with men linked to all these factors. #Women#Smoking#trendingpink#pharmative
Sources:
1) https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-11/gifg-sda110518.php
2) https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/363/bmj.k4247.full.pdf
Smoking, diabetes and high blood pressure all raise women’s heart attack risk to a greater extent than these factors do for men.
Publishing their findings in BMJ, British researchers studied a population of 472,000 people, 56 percent of them women, who had no history of cardiovascular disease. The study cohort had a median age of 56 years old and ranged between 40 and 69 years old.
During an average of seven years of follow-up, 5,081 participants, 29 percent of whom were women, had a heart attack. This translated to a heart attack rate per 10,000 cumulative years of follow-up of 7.7 heart attacks among women and 24.4 among men.
Smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure and having a body mass index (BMI) greater than 25 (the threshold for being overweight) were all associated with an increased risk of having a heart attack. For men, currently smoking was tied to a doubled risk of heart attack, while among women smoking was associated with more than three times the risk.
This so-called excess risk was also seen among women compared with men for high blood pressure (tied to an 80 percent higher relative risk among women), type 1 diabetes (nearly three times higher risk) and type 2 diabetes (47 percent higher risk), although not with for having a high BMI.
When the study authors controlled for the effects of aging, they found this narrowed, but did not eliminate, the relative risks associated with smoking, diabetes and high blood pressure. Regardless of older age, women still maintained an excess risk of heart attack compared with men linked to all these factors.
#Women #Smoking #trendingpink #pharmative
Sources:
1) https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-11/gifg-sda110518.php
2) https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/363/bmj.k4247.full.pdf