Internists from the Vascular Risk working group of the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine (Semi) presented a few days ago a new network (called Rivas), made up of specialists from 77 Spanish hospitalsincluding two from Aragon, to weave synergies that promote the vascular health of patients, improving knowledge and research in this field.
Specifically, Internal Medicine professionals from the Royo Villanova Hospital, in Zaragoza, and San Jorge, in Huesca, participate in this project from the Aragonese Community, sources from Semi have specified.
The network was presented at the XX Vascular Risk Meeting of the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine, where new developments were analyzed with a focus on women’s cardiovascular healththe main theme of this year’s meeting in which the working group turns 20 years old.
One of the most widespread problems in public health, as explained, is the increase in cardiovascular diseases, which are the first cause of death in women and the second in men in Spain. However, according to Dr. Luis Castilla, coordinator of the Semi’s Vascular Risk group, they continue to be “little studied, little recognized, underdiagnosed and poorly treated.” It is known, he adds, that myocardial infarction “is gradually increasing in young women and women over 65 years of age,” while the incidence of myocardial infarction without coronary artery obstruction “is increasing in women under 65 years of age.” 60 years”.
By using the male pattern as the standard, classically the disease has been considered the same in men and womenhowever, there are multiple biological differences.
The society indicates that the increased risk of cardiovascular disease associated with smoking “is 25% greater in women than in men, and it is necessary to take into account that smoking is increasing in young women“. In addition, women have a “greater risk than men of acute myocardial infarction associated with hypertension, hypercholesterolemia and diabetes.” Also more important is the “excess cardiovascular risk produced by obesity in women than in men.”
