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Posted2024.03.19 10:01 Modified2024.03.19 10:01
Research has shown that depression is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and that this risk is significantly higher in women than in men.
HealthDay News reported on the 18th that Professor Keitaro Seno’s research group at the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Kyoto Prefecture University School of Medicine in Japan analyzed insurance claims data from the National Health Insurance Corporation (2005 -2022) and discovered this fact. The research team used an average of 1,088 days of data from 4,125,720 men and women (aged 18 to 75) with no history of cardiovascular disease or kidney failure and analyzed cardiovascular diseases such as myocardial infarction, angina, stroke, heart failure, atrial fibrillation. and depression. The relationship between them was analyzed.
As a result, the research team found that the incidence of cardiovascular disease was 39% higher in depressed men and 64% higher in depressed women compared to people without depression.
For each type of cardiovascular disease, women had a much higher incidence rate than men. Myocardial infarction occurred in 43% of men and 69% of women, angina pectoris in 51% of men and 73% of women, stroke in 45% of men and 60% of women, and heart failure in 32% of men. and in 69% of women, while fibrillation was higher in men (16%) and women (57%).
The research team explained that the overall results took into account other cardiovascular disease risk factors such as age, blood pressure, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, smoking, alcohol consumption and exercise.
The research team added that it hopes the results of this study can help doctors devise optimal measures for men and women to prevent the risk of cardiovascular disease in patients with depression. The research findings were published in the online edition of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) journal “ACC-Asia”.
/yunhap news
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