It's that Make Women More Invulnerability of Heart Disease

During this heart disease is identical with men and rarely experienced by women. Now the researchers managed to find reasons that make women more immune to heart disease. What is it?

Researchers from Queen Mary, University of London revealed that the sex hormone estrogen helps protect women from heart disease by keeping the immune system.

Sex hormone estrogen in women will be working in white blood cells to prevent the plaques attached to the blood vessels, thus avoiding a dangerous blockage.

This new study shows that women have a protein annexin-A1 higher on the surface of white blood cells. These proteins are highly related and estrogen levels throughout the menstrual cycle.

Estrogen helps move the annexin-A1 from the surface into the white blood cells, thus preventing plaque attached to the walls of blood vessels that can cause damage to the vascular (blood vessel).

"From the beginning we already know that estrogen can protect pre-menopausal women from heart disease, and these results memjadi protection clue how it happened," said Dr. Suchita Nadkarni of the William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary, University of London, as quoted from ScienceDaily , Saturday (09/10/2011).

Estrogen helps maintain a balance between protecting against infection and arteries from damage that leads to cardiovascular disease. The results of this study help explain why cardiovascular disease is higher in males than in females.

"In addition, understanding how the body against heart disease naturally be very important to develop new treatments," said Dr. Nadkarni.

Even so every woman still have to maintain healthy lifestyles, because when she entered menopause the risk of heart disease with men sudha due to declining estrogen levels in the body.