These factors make women most at risk of heart attack

Each year about 790 thousand people experience heart attacks or a miocarid heart attack, the Klan Kosova broadcast.

The current attitude is that males are more at risk of heart attacks than women, while the risk of women increases after they cross menopause.

However, researchers from the George Institute of Oxford University in the United Kingdom have conducted a study showing that women may be more affected by higher - mentioned factors at risk of heart attacks than men.

Researchers analyzed the data of 471, 998 thousand participants, of whom 56 percent were women. Participants were 40-69 years old, and they had no history of cardiovascular diseases.

In the first case, the findings of the investigators were not surprising. They confirmed that men and women are at high risk of heart attack if they smoke, have diabetes, have high blood pressure, or have a massive body index (BMI) over 25.

Smoking women had three times the higher risk of heart attack than did women who had never smoked.

Women with high blood pressure and diabetes (both types 1 and 2) also had a growing risk.

However, excessive risk increases did not apply to high - BMI women.