Menopause, the heart accelerates its decline: why prevention is needed for women

First there are the hormones estrogen. Like a real umbrella, they generally protect against the risk of developing lesions within the blood vessels, first and foremost the coronary arteries that supply the heart. But then, with the end of her fertile life, women progressively tend to have a cardiovascular risk similar to that of men, with mortality due heart attack ed stroke which even surpasses that of men at older ages.