Health differences between genders 

• Men and women appear particularly prone to specific conditions at various stages of life, For example, men generally develop risk factors at a younger age than women 
• Men also are at a higher risk of developing coronary heart disease On the other hand, older women have a higher risk of stroke than men of the same age 
• Numerous studies report associations that issues and the risk of late-life dementia. Studies also point has the link between cardiovascular conditions and cognitive 
• However, there has been very little research on whether the link between heart health and cognitive health differs between the genders 

Researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, investigated specifically the association between midlife cardiovascular conditions and whether this association was different between men and women 

According to study author Dr. Martin, professor of Epidemiology and Neurology at the Mayo Clinic and a member of the American Academy of Neurology, the study’s results show that midlife cardiovascular conditions and risk factors are associated with midlife cognitive decline in both men and women And therefore, the degree of association differed between the genders 

“We actually thought we would see more of an association among the men, but we ended up finding that although a greater percentage of men had cardiovascular factors in midlife, there seemed to be more of an effect on the cognition of the women with those factors,” he said in an interview with MNT. 

This was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the GHR Foundation Participants included 1,857 people between 50–69 years who were enrolled in the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging and did not have dementia at the start of the study 

The participants were clinically evaluated every 15 months for 3 years To assess memory, language, executive function, and visuospatial skills it needs several tests 

Some researchers found that while more men than women had at least one cardiovascular risk factor, the women who did have risk factors were more likely to experience a decline in cognition 

For example, those women with heart disease were more than twice as likely as the men to decline in composite cognitive test scores over the study period  

The results also indicated that different cardiovascular risk factors affected specific cognitive areas differently among the Diabetes, heart disease and abnormally high levels of blood cholesterol are associated with a decline in language scores are only find in women Congestive heart failure(CHF) are mostly find in men 

_{“What’s really important about this study is that it showed unequivocally that women in midlife who have risk factors of high blood pressure, abnormalities of LDL cholesterol, diabetes, smoking, or obesity can also develop a cognitive decline in midlife and at a greater incidence than men”} 

_{– Dr. Martin}