heart disease is the number three killer of women, after cervical cancer or breast cancer and stroke.
One of the biggest obstacles in the prevention of
heart disease is that people are reluctant to check their blood pressure when no symptoms. Risk of heart attack, especially coronary heart disease was greater in postmenopausal women than in women who have entered menopause.
This is due to the protective effects of estrogen in premenopausal women is quite large, so the protection of menopause hormones are reduced even none at all.
This is a risk factor for coronary heart disease:
- hypertension
- smoke
- diabetes
- lack of exercise
- stress
- Hypercholesterolemia or dyslipidemia
- Post-menopause