Men and women are not alike and when it comes to physical form, there are many differences, both physiological and psychological differences. The emotional behaviour exhibited by women is in quite contrast to that of men and psychologists say that women will express their emotions freely where as men will withhold their emotions more closely.
Similarly, when it comes to displaying disease symptoms also, men and women differ with a wide variation and the difference is more contrasting in heart diseases.
Let us now discuss two of the major differences in relation to symptoms and age.
Exposition of Symptoms
Both men and women suffer from heart diseases, but when it comes to exhibition of symptoms, symptoms exhibited by women vary very widely and significantly from that of men. A study also establishes that heart disease related deaths among women are more when compared with men. When you analyze the reason, you may find that the heart disease in women doesn t really get exhibited with pronounced symptoms.
The first general test that is performed on a person who complains chest pain is the angiogram and the results will be studied to find out any blockages in coronary arteries. Here the difference is that women will not tend to show up precisely the blockage in their arteries and that makes the doctor to subject the patient to other tests also.
Women who have been suffering from heart disease, on diagnosis, have shown blockages in the smaller coronary arteries that carries blood to heart, where as it is the bigger coronary arteries in case of men.
Due to blockage in such smaller coronary arteries, women suffer heart damage on various areas and this particular heart situation is called microvascular disease. Heart disease in women is prominently associated with such microvascular disease and this is a major difference when compared with men.
Age Factor
Then next major difference when it comes to heart disease in women is the age. Majority of women suffers from heart disease during the later part of their age unlike men who suffer heart disease at a very early age. Heart disease in women is the major cause of death in aged women and the normal age at which the heart disease strikes is at age of 70 in case of women.
In order to save the older women from the risks of heart disease, an active life style is recommended and doctors advice that women who are in their post menopause stage should be more conscious about the lurking danger of heart disease and take effective precautions to avoid the disease.
A healthy diet, good exercise schedules including a viable aerobic exercise and weight reduction can help in preventing aged women from getting heart diseases.
[tags]Disease in Women, Menopause, Precautions[/tags]