The French Federation of Cardiology never ceases to remind people: cardiovascular diseases also affect women, including young women. They even kill 7 times more women than breast cancer.
A new study published in the Jjournal of the American College of Cardiology suggests that there would be a link between the early onset of menopause or not having had a child with heart risk.
A risk that remains moderate
Researchers at the San Francisco School of Medicine (USA) clinically followed more than 28,000 postmenopausal women who did not have cardiovascular disease for an average period of 13.1 years, during which time 5.2% women have had a heart failure and were admitted to hospital.
They studied the link between the total number of live births, the age of the mother at the first pregnancy, as well as the total length of the fertile period, that is, the time between the appearance of the first menstruation and the onset of menopause.
They concluded that a early menopause was associated with a moderate risk of heart failure. In addition, their study found that women who had never given birth had a higher risk of diastolic heart failure, a type of heart failure that occurs when the heart’s left ventricle becomes rigid and can no longer relax. properly, preventing the heart from receiving the blood it needs between beats.
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