People who have a role “traditionally assigned to women” have a higher risk of recurrence of cardiovascular illnesses than the others, according to the results of a study published in the medical journal Journal of the American College of Cardiology. This regardless of their biological sex. In question, an increase in anxiety.
Researchers at Mac Gill University (Canada) conducted a study with 1,000 patients aged 18 to 55 who had already been treated for cardiovascular disease. Study participants were part of the GENESIS-PRAXY (GENdEr and Sex determInantS of cardiovascular disease: from bench to beyond: PRemature Acute Coronary SYndrome) cohort that was set up to determine differences associated with sex and gender ( gender identity, role in society, socio-economic status and interpersonal relationships) in men and women with heart disease.
” Gender is determined by the roles, behaviors, expressions and identities of girls, women, boys, men and gender diverse people established by society. It influences how people see themselves and others, how they act and interact, and how power and resources are distributed in society. Gender is often described in binary terms (girl/woman or boy/man); yet there is great diversity in the understanding, experience and expression of gender by individuals and groups recalls the Institute of Gender and Health of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Anxiety promotes recurrence of heart disease
The researchers then developed a gender index ranging from 1 to 100 points, ranging from a very high result of characteristics traditionally attributed to men (1 point) to the other extreme, i.e. a result high level of characteristics traditionally attributed to women (100 points). ” We observed that participants who scored high on characteristics traditionally attributed to women, regardless of whether they were biologically male or female, were more likely to have a second episode. cardiac explained Dr. Louise Pilote, Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Professor of Medicine at McGill University.
“In our cohort, the characteristics traditionally attributed to women seemed to have an effect on health explained by an increase in anxiety.“, continued the author of the study.
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