Certain professions and late dinners bad for women’s heart health

A new study from a team from Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has revealed that post-menopausal women in certain professions are more likely to suffer from heart diseases and other heart problems. Many of these jobs include those in health care says the study. The results of the study are to be presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2019 to be held in Philadelphia between November 16th and 18th.

For this study and to draw conclusions, the team had to investigate the heart health of a large number of women. They included over 65,000 postmenopausal women for their analysis and the average age of the study population was 63 years. These women and their data was part of the Women’s Health Initiative study.

In the database the team noted 20 common professions of the women and classified them according to the “Life’s Simple 7 cardiovascular health metrics” prescribed by the American Heart Association. Included within these 7 parameters are four health behaviors – smoking, physical activity, body weight and nutrition and three health risk factors – total cholesterol, blood pressure and fasting blood sugar.

Based on the classification, they noted that 13 percent of the participating women had poor cardiovascular health. Now they extrapolated these women with their professions and found several jobs were common among these women. This helped the team arrive at conclusions that certain jobs could be bad for women’s heart health.