Ask your doctor to evaluate you before resuming sexual activity.
If you’ve had heart failure or a heart attack, cardiac rehabilitation and regular physical activity can reduce the risk of complications related to sexual activity.021.
If you’re thinking about starting birth control or getting pregnant, be sure to talk to your doctor first.
Don’t skip the medications that could improve cardiovascular symptoms because you’re concerned they could impact your sex drive or function. Your heart health should come first!
If you’re a post-menopausal woman with cardiovascular disease, it’s generally safe to use estrogen that’s topically or vaginally inserted for the treatment of painful intercourse.
Women with diabetes are at greater risk of heart disease than are men with diabetes.
Mental stress and depression:
Women’s hearts are affected by stress and depression more than men’s. Depression makes it difficult to maintain a healthy lifestyle and follow recommended treatment, so talk to your doctor if you’re having symptoms of depression.
Smoking:
In women, smoking is a greater risk factor for heart disease in women than it is in men.
Inactivity:
A lack of physical is major risk factor for heart disease, and some research has found women to be more inactive than men.
Overweight:
(Body Mass Index [BMI] 2529.9-) or Obesity (BMI higher than 30)
Menopause:
Low levels of estrogen after menopause pose a significant risk factor for developing cardiovascular disease in the smaller blood vessels (coronary microvascular disease).
Broken heart syndrome:
This condition often brought on by stressful situations that can cause severe, but usually temporary, heart muscle failure occurs more commonly in women after menopause. This condition may also be called takotsubo cardiomyopathy, apical ballooning syndrome or stress cardiomyopathy.
Pregnancy complications:
High blood pressure or diabetes during pregnancy can increase women’s long-term risk of high blood pressure and diabetes and increase the risk of development of heart disease in the mothers.
Poor diet:
Family history of heart or vascular disease:
Some research has found that if you had pregnancy complications such as high blood pressure or diabetes your children may also have an increased risk of heart disease in the future.
Emirates Cardiac Society (ECS) is a non-profit organization comprising of cardiologists within the UAE that work under the umbrella of the Emirates Medical Association.
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