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New Canadian Study Reveals Possible Link Between Issues

Toronto-A new study is pointing to a direct link between middle aged women who are severely depressed and incidents of heart attack for women.

The study is demonstrating that depression can affect women in ways that are more intense and more dehabilitating for women than for men.

Depression appears to affect women in different ways and in ways that are more significant and physically severe than how depression appears to affect men.

The new Canadian study is being published in Health Reports, a Canada Statistics publication, and it used data from a group of 4,948 women and men that are age 40 years or older, and it followed this population of people for 12 years beginning in the year 1994.

The study was looking at how heart disease and depression interrelated among different groups of Canadians.

In the study, while men still had at times ill effects from depression including heart issues, the incidence of depression and heart attack or other heart issues for women was pronounced.

Women in the study who experienced some sort of depression were over 70 percent more likely and at greater risk to develop heart disease than women or men without depression.

In the study men who were depressed did not show any increase risk of heart disease at all.