04-09-2021
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Earth.com staff writer
Work stress and social strain put women at significantly greater risk of developing coronary heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States, according to a new study from Drexel University.
The research suggests that the stress of work demands, when compounded by social pressure, is associated with a 21 percent higher risk of coronary heart disease among women.
Specific high-stress life events were independently linked to greater heart disease risk, including the death of a spouse, divorce, social strain, and verbal or physical abuse.
The research was focused on data from 80,825 postmenopausal women who were included in the Women’s Health Initiative Observational Study, which tracked participants from 1991 to 2015. The goal of the study was to find better methods of preventing cancer, heart disease, and osteoporosis in women.
Racial disparities play a role in weight gain among postmenopausal women
After menopause, non-Hispanic Black women are more likely to experience weight gain than non-Hispanic white women, researchers at the Rush Institute for Healthy Aging have found. The results of their study were published March 1 in the medical journal
PLOS ONE.
Working in collaboration with colleagues at other leading research institutions, the Rush investigators set out to determine how weight status (a person s weight classification using standard measurements) contributes to differences in postmenopausal weight gain among non-Hispanic Black women and non-Hispanic white women.
The study included data about 70,750 white and Black postmenopausal women, which was obtained from the Women s Health Initiative Observational Study, a long-term national health study funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Body mass index at baseline was used to classify women as being a normal weight, overweight,
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DALLAS, Feb. 23, 2021 Women face many female-specific risks for heart disease and stroke, including pregnancy, physical and emotional stress, sleep patterns and many physiological factors, according to multiple studies highlighted in this year’s Go Red for Women® special issue of the
Journal of the American Heart Association, published online today.
“Although cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in men and women, women are less likely to be diagnosed and receive preventive care and aggressive treatment compared to men,” said
Journal of the American Heart Association Editor-in-Chief Barry London, M.D., Ph.D., Ph.D., the Potter Lambert Chair in Internal Medicine, director of the division of cardiovascular medicine, director of the Abboud Cardiovascular Research Center, professor of cardiovascular medicine and professor of molecular physiology and biophysics at the University of Iowa’s Carver College of Medicine in Iowa City, Iowa. “Identifyin
Older Women Who Walk Daily Reduce Risk of High Blood Pressure
Research affirms walking could be primary way to prevent blood pressure issues in adults
Women who walk 30 minutes a day may have a significantly lower risk of developing high blood pressure, new research shows.
Further, women who don’t walk 30 minutes the federal physical activity guideline of moderate activity but do walk at 2 mph (a 30-minute mile) or faster, still have a reduced risk of hypertension, according to the study in the journal Hypertension.
Another study of more than 80,000 postmenopausal women aged 50 to 79 in Circulation: Heart Failure reports that more time spent in sedentary behavior while awake, such as sitting or lying on the couch, is associated with a higher risk of hospitalization for heart failure.