Risk factors for heart disease and stroke are largely similar in men and women globally, finds study

Men and women share many of the identical danger components for heart problems (CVD), a big worldwide research has discovered—the primary such research to incorporate folks not solely from excessive revenue nations, but additionally from low- and middle-income nations the place the burden of CVD is the best.

The research was printed right this moment in The Lancet.

The worldwide research assessed danger components, together with metabolic (reminiscent of hypertension, weight problems and diabetes), behavioral (smoking and weight loss program), and psychosocial (financial standing and despair) in about 156,000 folks and not using a historical past of CVD between the ages of 35 and 70. Dwelling in 21 low, center and high-income nations on 5 continents, they had been adopted for a mean of 10 years.

“Men and women have related CVD danger components, which emphasizes the significance of the same technique for the prevention of CVD in women and men,” stated the paper’s first writer Marjan Walli-Attaei, a analysis fellow on the Inhabitants Well being Analysis Institute (PHRI) of McMaster College and Hamilton Well being Sciences (HHS).

General, girls had a decrease danger of growing CVD than males, particularly at youthful ages.

Nevertheless, weight loss program was extra strongly related to CVD danger in girl than males—”one thing that is not been earlier described, and which requires impartial affirmation,” stated Salim Yusuf, lead investigator of the research, senior writer, govt director of PHRI, professor of drugs at McMaster College, and heart specialist at HHS.

Excessive ranges of unhealthy (LDL) ldl cholesterol and signs of despair had been extra strongly related to CVD danger in males than in girls. The patterns of those findings had been typically related in high-income nations and upper-middle-income nations, and in low-income and lower-middle-income nations.