heartA widespread wrong misconception about the heart disease is that it is considered only men’s disease but the fact is that heart disease and other cardiovascular diseases are equally harmful and devastating for women as well.It is not believable for many people but it is also a fact that heart attack and other cardiovascular diseases are a basic reason behind most of deaths of for American women.Cancer particularly breast cancer is considered a basic cause of death among the women but statistics prove that the number of women who die of cancer is almost half than the women who heart attack, stroke and some other cardiovascular disease.

Many such factors, as increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, have been indicated by the American Heart Association.These risk factors indicate the possibilities of heart attack and other cardiovascular disease among the women.As these risk factors increase, the possibilities of heart attack and other cardiovascular disease are also increase.Age, genetics, race and gender are such factors among these factors as can’t be control but there are also some factors that can be controlled and risk of heart attack can be decreased.

The risk factors that can’t be controlled are as follow:

  1. Growing Age-Risk of heart attack among older women is greater than the younger women and as the age increases, possibilities of heart disease also increase.
  2. Gender-The possibilities of heart attack and other cardiac diseases is greater in men than the women.
  3. Genetics-If heart diseases are found in the family history, men and women of that particular family may become the victim of heart disease at some stage of their lives.
  4. It has been observed that the risk of heart attack and other cardiac disease is greater in the black people than the white people.
  5. Previous record- if a patient has suffered a heart attack or some other cardiac disease; there are more chances that this patient will be the victim of disease again. So previous record is also one among many other uncontrollable.

Similarly, there are some risk factors that can be controlled and treated but one needs a permanent proper care to control all these diseases related to heart.

  1. Quit smoking—Smoking is one of the major causes of heart diseases not only in men but also in the women.The risk of heart attack and other cardiovascular diseases is many time higher among the people who smoke tobacco.In women smoking with the use of birth control pills increase the risk of heart attack and stroke.
  2. Increased level of cholesterol—High level of cholesterol in the bloods prove very harmful for heart .It gathers in blood vessels and creates a blockage in the smooth run of blood towards heart and from heart to other parts of the body.According to some studies women cholesterol around the age of 55 an onward is higher than the women.And it is a more dangerous risk factor for women than for men.
  3. Hypertension—High blood pressure or hypertension plays a pivotal role in heart disease and stroke .In overweight women there are greater possibilities of getting high blood pressure.Similarly, high blood pressure also occurs among the patients who have a family history of that disease.But still high blood pressure is a controllable factor and can be controlled with little bit attention and care.
  4. Lethargy –We use such food as not encouraging to our body and daily routine and we have developed such eating habits as ultimately lead us towards heart problems and many other diseases.Lack of movement with that unhealthy food reacts in a double whammy way for the body and we have to be the victim of many disease including hypertension and heart disease.To avoid these diseases we must try to move our body as much as possible and only this way we can control the risk of heart disease.
  5. Food factor—the factor behind all other factors is food factor.Usually, it happens so that people adopt an attitude that can be called a live to eat attitude instead of eat to live attitude.We must eat to live not live to eat.It is also a well known saying that we dig our grave from our teeth.We need just to control our diet and soon we will be able to control all other factors that we can control.
  6. Obesity—Obesity and overweight are basic factors behind a lot of diseases like high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease. Obesity can be controlled and so are the other diseases but the thing which is essential to control disease is to control obesity.
  7. Diabetes—Diabetes is also a factor that ultimately leads towards heart disease and risk of cardiac arrest among the people with diabetes is twice higher than the people without diabetes or high blood pressure.Diabetes also causes high blood pressure, high cholesterol and obesity as well.But it is a controllable factor that can be controlled with proper attention and treatment.

Some other factors that contribute to the risk of cardiac disease among the women

  1. Excessive use of alcohol—Alcohol in moderate use is good for the health of the heart as prescribed by the many doctors but it is still not confirm and use of alcohol can not be recommended.But is quite obvious that the risk of heart disease among the women who drink excessively is a lot of time higher than those who do not take alcohol at all.
  2. Stress and tensions—Different people have different responses towards stress and it also counts a lot the way they response to these stresses and tensions of their daily life. And often unhealthy responses lead towards heart disease and other disorders.
  3. Fats in the body—A fat in the body known as triglyceride often leads towards high cholesterol and other disease .However some scientists are of the view that it is a risk factor for heart disease or some other disease.

Heart disease among women are not taken as seriously as some cancers like breast cancer or brain tumors but as the statistics show that number of women who die of cardiac disease and stroke is double than the number of women who die of cancers.These statistics are quite alarming and want an utmost attention to heed over them.Our life depends on our heart if heart is healthy and sound it means quality of life is well and somewhat praise worthy but if heart is not healthy than life remains but quality vanishes.So, take care of your heart to enjoy a good quality of life.

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