HEALTH

Waist size bigger heartattack risk in women

The George Institute for Global Health is looking into if women with bigger waists relative to their hips have more risk of having heart attacks. The study shows that the relation waist-hip is a better predictor of heart attack than obesity.

This finding has been published in the Journal of the American Heart Association thanks to UK Biobank.

Dr. Sanne Peters, author of the investigation, said that the fat around the abdomen appears to be more hazardous than the fat stored around the hips.

The body composition and the fat distribution differed between the sexes. Women with those characteristics have more risk of suffering a heart attack than men.

Some of the heart attack symptoms are: chest pain, feeling dizzy, sweating, feeling sick, anxiety, etc. Every symptom is different in each person.

Ashleigh Doggett, cardiac nurse, said that this investigation could lead the way in treating patients individually.

First of all, I have to say that is important to find a new measure to diagnose heart attacks because people could try to avoid it. When people know that they can possible have a heart attack then they worry and start to do things as sport to prevent the heart attack. There are lots of factors that can be controlled as smoking, blood pressure, cholesterol, obesity, lack of physical activity, diabetes, etc.

In the other hand, there are also factors that can’t be monitored. In the first place, the age,  and at last, the hereditary and other diseases.

Finally, I want to say that both if you have risk of having a heart attack or not you should always do sport and eat healthier, for your own good.