Do men develop heart disease younger than women?

Do men develop heart disease younger than women?

Men develop heart disease a little earlier than women by about a decade, so the incidents of heart attack in women is delayed by about ten years. Now, we don't actually know why that is. We used to think we had a simple answer in that women go through the menopause and after the menopause their incidents of heart attack certainly goes up, but in fact replacing estrogen as we did in trials of hormone therapy, what we used to call hormone replacement therapy, in fact didn't benefit women in terms of preventing heart attacks and preventing the development of coronary artery disease. So, it seems clear that there are multiple factors. In any case, when women start to catch up, they really do catch up. Although they start a little later, by the time they get to their late seventies and early eighties women in fact are dying of heart disease at a considerable rate. Wpmen are having heart attacks at a rate that is equivalent to and then surpasses the rate of men's heart attacks. In fact in this country, more women die of heart disease every year than men equating to more than four hundred and fifty thousand women a year with men amounting to a little over four hundred thousand this year.