Researchers from Queen Mary, University of London revealed that the sex hormone estrogen may help protect women from heart disease by keeping the immune system. Estrogen in women will work in the white blood cells to prevent the plaques attached to the blood vessels, thus avoiding a dangerous blockage. This study shows that women have the annexin-A1 protein are higher on the surface of white blood cells. These proteins are highly related and estrogen levels during the menstrual cycle.
Estrogen helps moving an annexin-A1 from the surface into the white blood cells thereby preventing the plaque against the wall of blood vessels that can make damage to the vascular (blood vessel).
"From the beginning we've known that estrogen can protect pre-menopausal women from heart disease, and these results are an indication of how much the protection it happened," Dr. Suchita Nadkarni of the William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary, University of London, as quoted from ScienceDaily.
Estrogen helps maintain a balance between fighting the infection and protect arteries from damage that leads to cardiovasculardisease. The results of this study explain why cardiovasculardisease tended to be higher in males than in females.
"In addition, understanding how the body against heart disease naturally became very important to develop new treatments," said Dr. Nadkarni.Even so, every woman should still maintain healthy lifestyles, because when she entered menopause the risk of the heart disease equal to men due to already declining levels of estrogen in the body. So, always be aware to women heart disease symptoms, you may also read about Heart Disease and Pregnancy.
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