New research shows that women whose mother had suffered strokes are at higher risk of having a heart attack. It is supposed that women are more prone to have threat of hereditary forms of heart disease, while in men it is more likely to be activated by lifestyle aspects like smoking, drinking and diet.
To verify the hereditary effects of the disease, researchers from the Oxford University observed more than two thousand female patients who had suffered heart attack, stroke and angina. It was revealed that higher percentage of females’ mothers had suffered a stroke in comparison to their fathers.
It was also found that females suffering heart problems were more prone to have a sister who had suffered a stroke than a brother, reported the study published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics. The researchers warn that it can be a more significant prophet of future heart problems than drinking, smoking obesity, and blood pressure.
Their study findings spot in the direction of sex-specific heritability of vascular disease crossways different arterial territories, namely coronary and cerebral artery territories, explained study author Amitava Banerjee, from the Stroke Prevention Research Unit from Oxford University. Furthermore, conventional risk aspects like high blood pressure, smoking and diabetes do not account for heart attack risk as evidently in women than men.
The devices to determine risk in women are inadequate. There is noticeably scope for progress in envisaging heart attack risk in women. The present devices to envisage heart attack risk overlook family history without accounting for pertinent details like age, sex and type of disease in sufferers in comparison to their relatives.
The research team from The Oxford University proposes that GPs should ask women detailed questions regarding their family history of heart disease when trying to found if they are at risk of a stroke or heart attacks, counting which relations were affected and how old they were.