Heart attack more common with diabetic women

They analyzed data from all hospitals in Tuscan for eight years and a dataset of all the registry of all known patients with diabetes in the region. The diabetes effects were separately measured in women and in men across this entire eight-year time.

Diabetes may be harder on women’s hearts than it is on men’s, according to research presented Monday at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes in Stockholm, Sweden.

Coronary risks in diabetes are greater for women than their male counterparts beginning in middle age, two separate studies affirmed.

Seghieri continues, “This is probably due to the fact that women come later to the diagnosis of diabetes, are undertreated as to drugs used in the secondary prevention of [cardiovascular disease] and reach fewer targets than men for lipemic control, metabolic control and blood pressure control”.

Seghieri said clinicians should be more proactive in searching for altered glycemic metabolism in women, while also searching for CVD risk factors in women with diabetes. According to the findings of this study, women previously diagnosed with diabetes presented 38 percent higher chances of suffering a heart attack or developing other heart complications than men.

In the first study, the level of risk in diabetic women varied with age. When this is compared to men’s 1.96 times, it puts women at a 34 percent higher risk of heart attack.

“Regarding ischemic stroke (IS) and congestive heart failure (CHF), it opens later, in the postmenopausal age (55 years and over) and to a lesser extent”.

In the second analysis by Dong, there were nearly 107,000 fatal and nonfatal acute coronary syndrome events. There were 5 studies were conducted in North America, 7 in Europe, and 6 in Asia, including countries such as Canada, the United States, China and Germany.

Dr Xue Dong, from the Zhongda Hospital of Southeast University, Nanjing, China, led the study.He and his colleagues concluded that “Women with diabetes have a roughly 40% greater excess risk of acute coronary syndrome (heart attack and angina), compared with men with diabetes.”

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