Monthly symptom suffered by millions of women in connection with a huge increased heart attack and risk of strokes – such as cases in young people rise

Millions of women with a serious form of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) run a much greater risk of potentially deadly stroke, suggests a large study.

Although most women will suffer from PMS – which can cause painful physical and emotional symptoms in the weeks before their menstruation – about a third can undergo a serious form that can be treated at a certain moment.

Now Swedish researchers have discovered that women with the diagnosis of PMs in general were 10 percent more likely to suffer from cardiovascular disease than women without diagnosis.

By breaking down cardiovascular disorders due to specific health problems, the team discovered that these women had 27 percent greater risk of suffering a stroke and 31 percent of the development of a heart articula.

An arrhythmia is potentially a serious problem with how the heart is correct – either too slow, too fast or inconsistent – which can contribute to heart attacks.

In the study, experts from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm investigated 22 years of health data of just under 100,000 women with whose PMS.

They compared the health results of heart health such as a stroke and arrhythmia diagnoses with rates in the general population and with the women’s sisters who were not diagnosed with PMS.

Writing in the diary Nature cardiovascular researchThe team said that even when taking factors that are known to take the risk of cardiovascular diseases – such as obesity and smoking status – the connection between health problems and PMs remained.

Yihui Yang, an expert in environmental medicine and first author of the study, said that the risk of these cardiovascular problems was particularly high for certain groups of women.

“The increased risk was especially clear in women who were diagnosed before the age of 25 and for those who had also experienced postnatal depression, a condition that can also be caused by hormonal fluctuations,” she said.

Scientists said exactly how PMS was an increased risk of cardiovascular problems unclear.

They suggested that the increased hormonal fluctuations experienced by PMS patients can disrupt other biological systems that control aspects such as blood pressure, the inflammation or the conversion of food into energy as potential factors.

However, the team added that this was an area that needed further research.

Estimates of how many women suffer from clinically significant – which requires treatment – PMMs vary because different criteria can be used.

Some studies give the prevalence on one in 20, while others estimate that it is 30 percent, about one in three.

Medici claim that if PMS causes issues that influence the physical, psychological, social and economic well -being of a woman, justifies a diagnosis and subsequent support and treatment.

British experts, however, estimate that only one in four and one in two women with clinically significant PMS actually seeks help from doctors.

PMS is an umbrella term for a series of physical and mental symptoms that usually occur one to two weeks before a woman’s period.

This is what the luteal phase is called of the menstrual cycle of a woman and is the period between ovulation – when an egg is released from an ovary – and menstrual and menstruation – the casting of the uterus that causes vaginal bleeding.

Symptoms of PMS are mood swings, depression, irritability, anxiety, sleeping problems, bloated feeling and cramps, headache, tenderness of breasts, stains, greasy hair and changes in appetite.

Some women experience more of these symptoms than others and the quantity and the severity of this can change in a course of a woman’s life.

Women whose PMS causes problems are initially advised by the NHS to take steps such as more sports, yoga and meditation and reducing smoking and alcohol to relieve their symptoms.

If these lifestyle changes do not work, women can contact their doctor who can advise on further treatment.

This can include cognitive behavioral therapy, hormone -based drugs such as the contraceptive pill or antidepressants.

More rarely women can experience an extremely serious form of PMs known as premenstrual dysforical disorder (PMDD).

Premenstrual dysforical disorder or PMDD, has countless symptoms, both physical, such as pain, nausea and fatigue, as well as psychological problems such as mood changes, relationship problems and even suicidal thoughts

NHS data show an increase in the number of younger adults who have suffered from heart attacks in recent decade. The largest increase (95 percent) was registered in the 25-29-year-old demography, although since the number of patients is low, even small peaks can look dramatic

PMDD patients can experience extreme physical and mental health problems that can include complete psychotic episodes and suicide feelings.

It is thought that the condition is around 824,000 women in the UK and 4.2 million in the US.

The new study is because heart attacks and strokes, especially among young people, rise in the UK.

Experts have blamed factors such as factors such as rising obesity levels, as well as smoking and alcohol consumption for the increase in the emergency situations of the heart in the young people.

There are also some evidence that strokes increases among younger people – with a quarter of the strokes in the UK, about 20,000 cases, who, according to the Stroke Association, take place in people of working age.

And although the stroke cases that have been diagnosed annually has fallen in older age groups for the past 10 to 20 years, it has doubled in those younger than 55, according to researchers from the University of Oxford who have an investigation to understand the reasons behind this rise.

There are strokes when the blood flow is cut to the brain, usually by a blood clot in a critical artery.

The medical emergency affects more than 100,000 British every year – one every five minutes – and claims 38,000 lives.

British are advised to take into account the acronym of four letters, fast (face, arms, speech, time) for possible stroke symptoms.