UNCOVERING THE DIFFERENT HEART DISEASE RISK FACTORS IN WOMEN
Client: Myant Health
11 January 2023
In a previous blog post, we discussed some of the differences between women and men when it comes to cardiovascular disease (CVD). We examined how women often have different, less ‘common’ symptoms than men when experiencing a heart attack. We also explored how CVD often presents as microvascular disease in women—a less commonly-understood form of heart disease that has different symptoms than other forms of heart disease, which are often more easily recognized.
Did you know that on top of having different symptoms, women also have different risk factors for heart disease than men? In this piece, we’ll explore some of those risk factors and discuss why early identification of cardiovascular health risks is vital to detecting this deadly disease in women early on. Here we’ll discuss some of the risk factors specific to women; however, it should not be discounted that many of the risk factors common in men are also common in women—such as smoking, diabetes, inactivity, obesity, and high blood pressure.