Middle-aged women twice as likely to have a stroke as men

Middle-aged women twice as likely to have a stroke as men - Independent on Sunday

Extract:

"Middle-aged women are now more than twice as likely to have a stroke as men of the same age, a study reveals. Scientists suspect stress and weight gain are the main reasons why the number of women being struck down by these brain attacks suddenly rockets after the age of 45.

Until then a woman is no more at risk than a man. But rates of high blood pressure - the biggest cause of strokes - start to rise dramatically in the decade leading to a woman's 45th birthday, the study found. And in the decade after that women are 2.4 times more likely than men to have a stroke.

Caused by a clot or bleeding in the brain, strokes are the biggest cause of severe disability in the UK and lead to 67,000 deaths a year. They are the third most common cause of death in England and Wales after heart disease and cancer."

I believe a major part of the explanation for the gender difference is that women tend to be more frequently prescribed medications, especially the drugs that cause sodium and water retention - mainly steroids, HRT, tricyclic antidepressants like amitriptyline, etc - and it is this fluid retention that is the main cause of an increased risk of stroke (and heart disease and cancer and obesity and high blood pressure and a lot more health problems). - The harm done cannot be reversed but it can be mitigated by reducing sodium intake - i.e. avoiding salt and salty food.

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