Heart failure develops differently in women

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The study showed that the path of development of heart failure in women is different than men. This is the conclusion reached by scientists from the Smidt Heart Institute.

For the first time in the history of science, researchers have discovered a different way of developing heart failure in women than in men. And that's why new visual diagnostic tools developed by the researchers themselves were used.

They believe that these gender differences are related to changes at the cellular level in the heart muscle and surrounding tissues. It is quite possible that the obtained data will be used for more targeted treatment of women from heart failure.

It has been known for a long time that with age, women's hearts have thicker walls, they decrease more in size, and contract faster and more intensively than men's.

These structural changes can be seen with the naked eye, but a more sensitive and detailed visualization is needed to understand how the pathologies of this organ lead to heart failure. Scientists have discovered microstructural changes in heart muscle tissues that predict heart failure in women.

It is likely that these changes are the result of the accumulation of a large number of scars in the heart of women compared to men. Fibrosis contributes to scarring, which leads to cardiac dysfunction and clinical symptoms of heart failure. This process may be one of the key reasons why women with age develop heart failure more often than men, but with a preserved ejection fraction.