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Breastfeeding reduces the risk of stroke by twelve percent

DSG erläutertmedizinischen Zusammenhang und benennt Risiken und Vorsorgemöglichkeiten für "weiblichen Schlaganfall"

At 55 percent, women are affected by a stroke than men - and they have more risk factors.In addition to the usual risk factors such as diabetes, smoking and lack of exercise, "typical female factors" such as migraines with aura, complications during pregnancy, taking the antibabia pill and a higher life expectancy with you the risk of stroke.However, an article, which has been published in the renowned Journal of the American Heart Association, says that women who have satisfied at least once in their lives have a twelve percent risk of stroke than women who have never breastfed.The German Stroke Society (DSG) welcomes the publication, which has worked out a protective factor before the "female stroke" and explains further precaution for women.

About 270 suffer in Germany.000 people a stroke per year;Around 55 percent are women.Now an article has been published in the journal Journal of the American Heart Association, whose authors have analyzed eight studies with 1.2 million women from different countries around the world.The evaluation shows: "Women who have breastfed in their lives have a twelve percent less risk of suffering a stroke than women who have never breastfed," explains Professor DR.med.Wolf-Rüdiger Schäbitz, press spokesman for the DSG.The effect in women who have breastfed for a total of twelve months or more is particularly clear.How many children the women born and how old they were at birth did not matter.The findings also show that breastfeeding also significantly reduces the risk of other cardiovascular diseases-and by eleven percent.As has been known for a long time, breastfeeding also reduces type 2 diabetes as well as cancer of the ovaries and chest.

In both sexes, diabetes, atrial fibrillation, obesity/lack of exercise and smoking increase the risk of stroke."Women also have typically" female "risk factors such as taking the anti -Baba pill, the pregnancy disease preeklampsia, the age at the beginning of menopause and migraines with aura," counts Professor Schäbitz from the Clinic of Neurology in Bethel.It is therefore gratifying to know a specific protective factor for women.

But why does breastfeed lower the risk of stroke?Professor DR.med.Helmuth Steinmetz, 2.Chairman of the DSG, considers several factors to be possible, including hormonal influences on the vascular system, accelerated body weight after pregnancy and a "reset" of the maternal metabolism by breastfeeding.

In order to protect themselves from a stroke, the experts recommend women as well as men to reduce obesity, reduce their blood pressure, treat diabetes and not to smoke.The following also applies to women: "Caution when taking the anti -Baby pill when you smoke or have a migraine with aura," warns Professor Steinmetz from the center of neurology and neurosurgery at the University Hospital Frankfurt."Women with migraines with aura who take the pill and smoke have a ten -time risk of stroke."A special risk group is also women with diabetes: their risk of illness is increased by 27 percent compared to men with diabetes and the severity of stroke is also significantly more pronounced in women with diabetes.

Against this background, it is all the more gratifying that breastfeeding reduces the risk of stroke: "Now we also know that breastfeeding not only protects against breast and ovarian cancer, but also from heart attack and stroke," says Professor Schäbitz the pleasant results of the current studytogether.This aspect should be taken into account in the recommendations for breastfeeding and also in the workplace situation of women with infants.

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Breastfeeding is Associated with a reduced Maternal cardiovascular risk: Systematic Review and Meta? Analysis Involving Data from 8 Studies and 1 192 700 Parous Women

Caption: Breastfeeding lowers stroke risk.Image source: www.Diab site.de

last edited: 25.01.2022