Research: Risk for heart disease due to endometriosis

Increased chances for heart disease show the women with endometriosis, especially those up to 40 years of age, as proves a new large american scientific research…
Essentially, this is the first study that establishes the relationship between endometriosis and coronary heart disease.
The researchers, who made the relevant publication in the journal “Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcome” of the American Heart Union, analyzed data for approximately 11.900 women with surgically diagnosed endometriosis, according to the Athenian Agency.
During 20 years that lasted the study, it was found that women with endometriosis have a 1.4 times greater risk of requiring surgery to open blocked arteries, 1.5 times for stroke, and 1.9 times for event angina pectoris, compared with women without endometriosis.
For women under 40 years of age, the risk is even higher, namely three times higher for narrowed arteries, a heart attack or angina, compared with women their own age without endometriosis.
The researchers reported that surgical treatment of endometriosis (removal of the uterus or of the ovaries) may be partly responsible for the increased cardiovascular risk.
– Due to the surgical procedure – induction of premature menopause may increase the risk for heart.
In 6% to 10% estimated percentage of women of reproductive age have endometriosis, but the exact number is unknown, as the certain diagnosis can only be done with surgery.
Many women do not realize that certain symptoms due to this condition.
It is a chronic -not lethal nor contagious – a condition in which tissue from the endometrium (the inner uterus) grows in other areas outside the uterus, such as the peritoneum, in the ovaries, the fallopian tubes, the bladder, and, more rarely, in the intestine, the lungs or the kidneys.
The main symptoms are pain in the abdomen or in the pelvis during the period of sexual intercourse, as well as intense bleeding and painful urination during the period.
According to the World Health Organization, more than 176 million women worldwide suffer from the disease.
The average incidence is at the age of 27 years old, but most women learn in a delay of three to five years of age that suffer from endometriosis, the disease does not always show symptoms or do not have a clear justification.