Wednesday, August 24, 2016 Stress can be particularly difficult in the hearts of young women who have heart disease, new research suggests...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Stress can be particularly difficult in the hearts of young women who have heart disease, new research suggests.
The researchers gave nearly 700 men and women with the allocation of heart disease psychologically demanding Public speaking. Then they measured blood flow to the heart.
Women of 50 years or less almost four times more likely than men of the same age or older women had blood flow to the heart cooking are reduced to study, said Dr. Viola Vaccarino. She is president of epidemiology at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta.
Reduced blood flow - medically known as myocardial ischemia - can lead to a heart attack, he noted.
"Young women appear more vulnerable [than men and older women] the effects of stress on your heart," Vaccarino said.
Experts have long known that young women are less successful than men of the same age, after a heart attack, but they could not fully explain. help this realization, this gap can be filled, he said.
The new study lacks provide information, agreed Dr. Suzanne Stone Tree, director of the heart health of women at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York.
"I do not think we have a complete picture of why young women are worse, but I think it certainly can be a piece of the puzzle," Stone Tree said, who is also a spokesman for the program American Heart Association Go Red for Women.
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In the study, scientists 686 patients 34-79 years who had stable heart disease. Some had heart attacks, others had other diseases, such as angina (chest pain).
"We asked a question on a topic to deliver that we gave them," he said. The audience was instructed not to respond positively, which adds to their stress.
The imaging studies and pointed to the speech that "young women, the amount of blood flow to the heart was reduced compared to men of the same age," Vaccarino said. There was no difference in men and women of advanced age, he noted.
Hypoperfusion occurred in one third of women aged 50 years or less, but only 8 percent of men in this age group.
The data suggest that stress may be particularly important for women who have heart disease, Vaccarino said.
Stress can help the worst-case scenario for young women, to explain, Stone Tree said, although other factors are in play, and that the severity of the heart disease.
For the distribution of work, family and financial responsibilities, many women feel stressed out regularly in their 30s, 40s and early 50s, the researchers said.
The study suggests that young and middle-aged women with heart disease - and the danger of it - will need further evaluation of the stresses of life and agreed additional support for the deal, the two doctors.
"Women need to understand that they need help, they need to understand how to put things in perspective," Stone Tree said.
ask doctors about stress and depression should, and women relate to counseling if necessary Vaccarino said.
Women wait to prevent heart disease also should try to manage your stress, and develop an exercise habit if they have already done, added Vaccarino. "We know that the same pattern [of tension and blood flow] can be applied to the persons who have not yet had a heart attack," he said.
"Practice has shown that the risk of depression and mental stress and heart disease to reduce," he said. "In this way, women can take care of your heart and mind."
The study was published August 24 issue of the American Heart Association.
