A new study has found that women having repeated miscarriages are five times more prone to have heart attack in their later life. A European study investigated more than eleven thousand women who had experienced at least one miscarriage. Additional two percent had suffered from stillbirth.
Among those nearly three thousand suffered miscarriage and seventy had suffered miscarriage more than three times. It was found that suffering at least one stillbirth raised the risk of heart attack by more than three percent. Women who had more than three miscarriages were nine times more prone to have heart attack.
While the risk diminishing to five times when other factors like weight, alcohol consumption and smoking were considered. Every miscarriage experienced by women raised her risk of heart attack by forty percent. The study carried out at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg, Germany examined connection between pregnancy loss and myocardial infarction (MI) or heart attack and stroke.
The results of the study suggest that women who suffered multiple pregnancy loss are at a considerably elevated risk of MI later in life. Repeated miscarriage and stillbirth are powerful gender interpreters for MI and thus should be measured as significant pointers for monitoring cardiovascular risk factors and precautionary gauges, explained researchers.
Other studies had indicated that rise in heart disease risk among women who had pregnancy complications that included pre-eclampsia and premature birth along with miscarriage, explained Prof Gordon Smith from Cambridge University. Whilst it is surely an appealing surveillance but it gives no proven explanation for an increase in risk of heart attack, explained Judy O’Sullivan from the British Heart foundation.
She added that it is not merely a case of saying multiple miscarriages augment your risk of a heart attack but lots of other factors come into play. It is recognized in some cases of multiple miscarriages that the women have formerly undiagnosed heart and circulatory disease or an important risk factors for the disease.
Therefore they may have an increased heart attack risk which is unconnected to the pregnancy.