Characteristics of cardiovascular disease in women

Cardiovascular disease is also the leading killer of women’s health, but the awareness rate of cardiovascular disease risk among women is low. Cardiovascular disease occurs throughout a woman’s life, adolescent women are prone to myocarditis, rheumatic heart disease; pregnancy complications heart disease is one of the main causes of maternal mortality; after menopause, the body’s estrogen secretion gradually decreases, which will cause an increase in blood lipids, blood viscosity increases, and thus the chance of coronary heart disease increases. The following is a brief summary of several characteristics of female coronary heart disease: 1, the onset of female coronary heart disease is also a trend of lower age. 45 years of age before the female coronary heart disease prevalence is significantly lower than that of men, after 45 years of age female prevalence increases year by year, to 60 years of age, there is no significant difference between male and female prevalence. 2, the disease factors: ① smoking, overweight to women suffering from coronary heart disease is more dangerous. Smoking increases the risk of coronary heart disease by 4-6 times in men and 6-9 times in women. ②Diabetes affects women more severely in terms of the occurrence and severity of coronary heart disease. ③Dyslipidemia is more common with low HDL-c and high TG. ④Menopause is a unique risk factor for women. The decrease in estrogen production leads to disorders of lipid metabolism and increased insulin resistance. In addition, women have atypical clinical manifestations of coronary artery disease, low positive coronary angiography rate, and poor prognosis. Cardiovascular prevention and treatment strategies for women are also different: for example, aspirin and statin lipid-lowering drugs have a clear role in the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in men, but are more controversial in female patients; women have atypical symptoms of coronary heart disease, and the risk of intervention is different from that of men; digoxin is applied in women with less benefit and greater risk than in men. Recommendations for the prevention of cardiovascular disease in women include two main areas: lifestyle and major risk factor interventions. Lifestyle interventions include avoiding active and passive smoking, maintaining daily physical activity, diet control, and weight loss. Control of risk factors is also very important.