A 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:
- 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.
- Gender-The possibilities of heart attack and other cardiac diseases is greater in men than the women.
- 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.
- It has been observed that the risk of heart attack and other cardiac disease is greater in the black people than the white people.
- 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.
