stressed, anxious, smokers, women have the heart far more fragile than people think. Both these diseases are a major cause of death, far superior to tumors. The warning is Professor Francesco Donatelli, Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the State University and director of Department of Cardio Vascular IRCCS Multimedia Sesto San Giovanni. "Cardiovascular diseases are always regarded as predominantly male, but the mortality data say otherwise." According to a 2008 report of the 'European Heart Network, 54 percent of deaths in women are caused by cardiovascular disease, compared with 17 percent for tumors. A ratio of about three to one that is very masculine situation where 38 percent of the deaths due to heart disease, compared to 28 percent due to cancer in general. And the picture, in Lombardy, reflects that of Europe: according to the latest ISTAT in 2006 deaths from heart and circulatory diseases in the population Women were 26,981 against 20,806 in the male. More cancer that killed 12,825 women and 16,292 men. The numbers on the risk factors are not comforting: "From the age of menopause onwards, 49 per cent of women are hypertensive, 38 percent had high cholesterol levels, 33 percent had metabolic syndrome, 30 percent are obese, more than 10 percent are diabetic. " To do the lion's share is incorrect habits, food and non-"Diets rich in fat, low physical activity and smoking. The incidence of smoking among adolescents is 30-35 per cent. " And then there is a tendency, all female, to understate the problem: "Take, For example, a heart attack. The distance of time that elapses between receipt of the classic thick and when the patient is in the hands of hemodynamics in women is one and a half that of men. Because the woman to bear more pain, tends to minimize it, and then to delay action. " And 'the force that, in these cases, it becomes weak.
The answer lies in one word, prevention. "You have done much for campaigning against the prevention of cancer, primarily for breast. With great results. Now we need to do the same for the heart. " Starting from the message on the package of cigarettes and arriving at the screening: "Just do it for the heart that, for example, does a mammogram for breast. For postmenopausal women, who have a greater cardiovascular risk, it would take a charge for blood tests, an interview and a questionnaire on habits. " Already
, habits. That the menage family by adding the weight of a social climbing that has become ever more insistent. Thus, 'reconciling work and family life often becomes an unbearable stress, "says Carmen Leccese, a sociologist at Bicocca University expert on gender issues and equal opportunities. "In regions such as Lombardy, where 60 percent of women have jobs, the problem is especially relevant: it is more often with two jobs, one for children and husband and one for the market. And this life full of acrobatics, as well as causing anxiety and stress, leaving little time for themselves, for treating food and fitness. " The solution? "Consider the reconciliation between home and work is also a male problem and stop the wave of social opportunities only as a slogan."
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