It is known that women share a lot of factors that cause strokes and heart
attack with men, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes,
smoking and obesity, but women have more factors like pregnancy, childbirth and
hormonal changes during pregnancy and until pre-menopause. Women suffer from
strokes and heart attacks more than men for the previous reasons in addition to
that they live longer than men and they also go through periods of weak health
care during pregnancy and lactation....
Stroke is what happens when there’s a closure
in the blood vessels due to a clot or any other reason, such as high blood
pressure, which prevents blood from reaching the brain, leading to cell death,
Can you imagine that women suffering from deadly strokes or heart attacks are
more than men by a very large number of 55 thousand women each year?!
We’ll provide you some rules and guidelines
that will be very important for women, especially older ones, to protect them
against deadly strokes. Although a stroke during pregnancy is very unlikely, it
may be the first sign of heart disease in the future; this sign is high blood
pressure.
Eclampsia and Pre-eclampsia is the state of having high blood pressure during pregnancy,
in this state the danger of having a stroke in the future becomes two times
more than normal, so you should be careful when dealing with birth control
pills, especially in the prime of life, because they increase the danger.
Precautions against heart attacks and strokes for women:
1- Women who complain of migraines should take precautionary
reserves for non-injury, most importantly to quit smoking.
2- Women who have suffered from high blood pressure before should
use aspirin and calcium during the whole period of pregnancy.
3- Women who suffer from high blood pressure during pregnancy
should see a doctor frequently for careful blood pressure monitoring, consult
your physician and take safe methyldopa and nifedipine drugs during pregnancy
and the rest of blood pressure drugs are not to be taken during pregnancy.
4- Women should measure their blood pressure before taking pills.
5- Women over seventy should periodically do ECG to make sure their
heart is working well.
6- The level of pressure should be measured periodically, sugar and
cholesterol tests done, especially for obese women.
7- Knowledge of family disease history accurately for prevention.
8- The most important thing to protect against strokes is the food
regime, as they should be adhering to a healthy food regime and stay away from
eating fat and fast food.
These rules should be taken seriously because strokes’ risk is
equal to that of breast cancer and should be taken seriously by women.