CARDIOVASCULAR RECOVERY PARTICULARITIES IN WOMEN
Abstract:
Currently, degenerative cardiovascular diseases are similar in women and men with a delay of
10 years in women, delay caused by the protective effects until menopause. Moreover, at a certain age,
cardiovascular diseases are more common in women. Of course, the risk factors, such as hypertension,
dyslipidemia, obesity, diabetes play a key role in the evolution and prognosis of cardiovascular disease.
Today, however, special attention is also paid to the study of new markers of cardiovascular risk, in the
conditions in which the endothelial dysfunction and inflammation play a major part in the pathogenesis
of microvascular angina, common in women. Cardiac recovery and secondary prevention represent a
group of supervised medical programmes aimed at a faster recovery after a cardiac event, with the
objectives of stopping or slowing the progression of the disease, risk reduction or optimization,
promoting and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Comprehensive recovery includes patient evaluation, risk
stratification, dietary advice, the aggressive treatment of the risk factors, psycho-social and vocational
counselling, recommendations for physical activity and workouts. The structure of the training
programme must be adapted to the functional capacity measured by exercise testing; therefore, the
intensity and duration of exercises need to be individualized, and the progression should be gradual.
Exercises should be structured and conducted on intervals rather in small groups. The groups should
also provide women with emotional, social and psychological support; there is an unanimous agreement
that the benefits of cardiovascular recovery in women are similar to those in men regardless of their
age.
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