It is not good to suffer from depression when you are a woman over 40 years old. This is what emerges from a new Australian study led by Dr Jackson, an epidemiologist at the University of Queensland. Indeed, according to this 12-year study of women aged 47 to 52, it seems that this is an age group where women are older. vulnerable and more susceptible to cardiovascular disease risks when suffering from anxiety or depression.
“We followed more than 10,500 women between 1998 and 2010. We concluded that women who suffer from depression between the ages of 40 and 50 are 2.4 times more likely to have a heart attack” explains Dr. Jackson. Figures she compares to those from a recent American study of a group of women over the age of 60, who were 3 times more risk of heart attack when they were on antidepressants. “The discovery of this cardiovascular risk in women aged 10 to 15 years younger than those in the American study surprised us,” adds the Australian doctor. It’s younger than we imagined ”.
This study reminds us that, contrary to popular belief, breast cancer is not the leading cause of death in women. And that it is indeed the heart attack, that we thought reserved for men, which causes more of a premature death © s in two in women. Until now, we thought women were sufficiently protected by their female hormones (estrogens). But a change in female behavior changed the situation: women smoke more and more , and often in combination with a contraceptive pill. And now we learn that anti-depressants also multiply the risk of developing cardiovascular diseaseâ ?? ¦ And if you get back to sport to maintain your heart ?
