Research, already pointed to a relationship between early menopause and cardiovascular disease-usually atherosclerotic heart disease. But this study by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, is the first, a connections with congestive heart failure, the inability of the heart to demonstrate the body's needs pump tailored to enough blood. It is the first large scale (including more than 22,000 women after menopause) and long-term study linking early menopause and cardiovascular disease-made possible by the Swedish national patient register, almost all Sweden inpatient and outpatient diagnoses; captured Sweden's cause of death register; and health surveys of about 90,000 women in the Swedish mammography cohort.
The authors analysis of the data showed that women in the menopause naturally went at this early age a rate of congestive heart failure about 40% higher than in women who went the usual age is between 50 and 54 in the menopause. (The average 51) And for any increase of a year-old menopause, the rate of heart failure was 2% lower.
Smokers have been known to go on average one year earlier than non-smokers in menopause, but explain that you had not quite early menopause heart failure connection, since women who had smoked earlier in their lives, and stop also an increased rate of heart failure with early menopause. Moreover, have had women who smoked, even if she had left earlier, a higher risk of heart failure, when the menopause just early - went at the age of 46 to 49.
"Menopause, early or late, always a good time to further steps is to heart disease risk reduction through movement, healthy nutrition, weight loss and not smoking, says Managing Director NAMS Margery Gass, MD."Thought-provoking study should encourage more research, as early menopause and heart failure are linked. "The factors that cause the heart failure also ovarian failure?"