When it comes to heart diseases men and women experience them in different ways, women tend to suffer more from heart failure than men, this is because they have more stress factors and stress usually worsens the prognosis of the heart failure.
Here are 5 common causes of heart failure in women.
Coronary heart disease
This is usually caused by the accumulation of cholesterol in the body, when there is too much intake of fatty foods and it reaches the arteries of the heart and causes a build-up called atherosclerosis, this ends up in becoming angina (chest pain), or if the blood flow becomes obstructed it can lead to heart attack.
High blood pressure 
Women are prone to having high blood pressure than men when it becomes it becomes uncontrolled, it increases the risk of having heart failure 2 to 3 times. When the pressure in the blood vessel is high, the heart has to pump harder than normal to keep blood circulating in the body.
Abnormal heart valves
This can result from different conditions, such as an infection, or a defect at birth. When the valves do not open or close properly during each heartbeat. The blood vessels have to work harder to keep blood flowing and this can result in heart failure if care is not taken.
Obesity
women are usually the ones at risk when it comes to obesity, obsessing can be said to be a cause of sleep and apnea (a brief pause in breathing). Obesity causes the heart to work much harder than it would work normally for an individual that is not obese, by pumping more and the workload therefore increases.
Anemia
When the body doesn’t have enough red blood cells in them to carry oxygen round to places that are in need of them. The heart then tries to move the small number of cells that it can at a faster rate, it then becomes overtaxed from the effort.
Conclusion
Generally, heart failure either in men or women occurs when the heart is overworked. So it is better to always get oneself checked out and keep a healthy diet and do exercises once in a while just to keep fit.
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