Author(s):

Meenu Sirohi and Kalpna Gupta

Abstract: The risk of chronic diseases like diabetes mellitus, hypertension along with stress is increasing day by day globally which together invite the fatal risk of cardiovascular diseases. Female hormone estrogen along with other factors like exercise, balanced diet with low consumption of sweets and salt plays a very crucial role in improving the quality and quantity of life of middle age women. As the age increases the risk of various chronic diseases like hypertension, diabetes mellitus along with stress increases which causes morbidity and mortality in women. If women are not educated or timely awarded about the impact of these chronic risk factors they finally become the main cause of cardiovascular diseases among them. Women have lower risk of chronic diseases in comparison to men but as they cross the forty five years of their age the risk is similar to men among them.

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