Mammography is the examination that all women over the 'door' are familiar. But not only serves to flush out a possible breast cancer, could also be used to identify women at increased risk of heart attack and stroke: it shows a study published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, conducted in the United States in 1500 postmenopausal ladies.
Peter Schnatz, an American cardiologist in Hartford, Connecticut, who has been studying the calcification of the mammary artery as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, followed for 5 years hundreds of volunteers who, in 2004, had undergone a mammography.
After two, four and five years women have responded to questionnaires specific to cardiovascular risk factors (smoking, hypertension, high cholesterol, menopause, physical activity) and reported in the meantime had developed cardiovascular disease, from stroke, to 'infarction, angina.
Its purpose was to determine whether mammography could be used as a tool for estimating the risk of cardiovascular disease, as it can see the small calcium deposits in breast arteries, according to many, may be indicative of an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes .
Women whose mammograms reveal the presence of calcifications were on average older than the other (69 years compared with 54 at the time of study entry) and, in fact, occur more often than other cardiovascular diseases: more than 20 percent of women mammary arteries 'dirty' has developed, over the 5 years, angina, heart attack or stroke, compared to only 5 percent of women whose mammograms had not detected accumulation of calcium.
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