{"id":47019,"date":"2018-11-13T10:47:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T10:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=47019"},"modified":"2018-11-13T10:47:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T10:47:32","slug":"women-who-smoke-or-have-diabetes-more-at-risk-of-heart-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/women-who-smoke-or-have-diabetes-more-at-risk-of-heart-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Women who smoke or have diabetes more at risk of heart attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While smoking entails several health hazards, a study has recently concluded that high blood pressure and diabetes in woman can increase the risk of heart attack in women. The researchers wrote in the BMJ, as quoted by a report in the BBC, that women, much like men, should be given equal treatment and be offered support to stop smoking.<\/p>\n<p>The study, led by Oxford University researchers, assessed nearly 500,000 people, from the age group 40-69, who were enrolled in the UK Biobank database. And over the seven years, it was found out that 5,081 people had their first heart attacks, and one among three of them were women. Even though men are still considered three times more vulnerable than women to suffer from heart attack, certain factors increase the risk in women. At the same time, high blood pressure too serves as a risk factor in women also Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers, however, are uncertain how these factors are sex-specific. \u201cHeart disease also affects women and this needs to be recognised,\u201d Dr Elizabeth Millett, lead study author said. \u201cIt\u2019s a complicated, long-term thing to work out, probably caused by a combination of factors \u2013 both biological and social,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While smoking entails several health hazards, a study has recently concluded that high blood pressure and diabetes in woman can increase the risk of heart attack in women. The researchers wrote in the BMJ, as quoted by a report in the BBC, that women, much like men, should be given equal treatment and be offered [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47021,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47019\/revisions\/47021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}