People say that Heart disease is always suffered by men, but that’s statement is not right. Heart disease is often suffered by women now. This disease of course related by their lifestyle, especially American Women. Based on women’s emancipation, American Women is inclined to have the same lifestyle with the men, such as about the job. In the fact, women who work every day have a high level in their stress and stress can change their lifestyle to the direction of bad lifestyle (bad health). They will not pay attention what they food, what they done. As we know, American food is domination by fast foods. In the fact, fast foods contain of high fat, high cholesterol. So, we will find American women have a problem with overweight, even obesity. Their habits, such as drunker, smoker make them have a bad health.
Women are at risk for heart disease, just like men. In 2001, American cardiologists’s research say that heart disease is leading cause of death among women over 65. American Women are 4 to 6 times more likely to die of heart disease than of breast cancer. Heart disease kills more women over 65 than all cancer combined. Women develop heart problem later in life than men, typically 7 or 8 years later. However, by about age 65, a woman’s risk is almost the same as a man’s.
Coronary heart disease is one of variety of heart disease. Coronary heart disease is causing by plugging of coronary artery. Coronary artery which pumps the blood from heart to the heart muscle, can not do the job. There are many plaque covered the blood vessel, especially coronary artery. The plaque consist of cholesterol and other substances which dissolve in blood, such as calcium, protein, fats, etc. Initialy, the substances and cholesterol dissolve in blood. The blood is pumped from heart to the body. When it’s pumped, there is a substance to be left behind the blood vessel (coronary artery). The plaque will begins large and when it happens, the coronary artery is difficult to channel the blood to the body and the blood can not be pumped. The condition is known as atherosclerosis. Heart will work very hard to pump the blood.
Other research in 1988-1994, American cardiologists say that women have coronary heart disease in 20-24 year, to be amount of 2,8%, when they are over 75, it will be increase until 16,1%. Therefor, women have a big chance to have increasing risk of coronary heart disease, when they begin old. In reproduction time, women have fewer chance than men. It has ratio 1:7, but when women in menopause age, they have the same risk with men. There are the different of heart disease in women and men. It relates with hormone. When women are in the menopause age, the body will begin to decrease the production of estrogen hormone. It causes increasing the risk of coronary heart disease. We know that estrogen hormone gives protection for our heart from coronary heart disease. (C. Straczec, et.al, 2005)
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