Endometriosis is also a risk factor for cardiovascular disease.

Our findings, she adds, “suggest that it may be time to routinely consider cardiovascular disease risk in women with endometriosis.”

The study used Danish national registers of all women diagnosed with endometriosis between 1977 and 2021. They were matched with women from the original population without endometriosis in a ratio of 1:4 depending on year of birth.

The primary endpoint was a composite of acute myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke.

A total of 6 were included in the analysis.0.508 women with endometriosis and 242,032 controls (mean age 37.3 years), who were followed for an average of 16 years and a maximum of 45 years.

Women with endometriosis had approximately 20% higher risk of acute myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke compared with women without endometriosis.

Growing evidence suggests that there is a close link between endometriosis and the cardiovascular system and that they may share common disease transmission pathways.

According to Havers-Borgersen, “although the absolute differences were small, the relative differences were 20%, and given the high prevalence of endometriosis, these results provide further evidence that female-specific risk factors and cardiovascular disease in women require greater attention.”

Therefore he concludes: “We suggest that women with endometriosis undergo cardiovascular risk assessment and now is the time to identify woman-specific risk factors. (such as endometriosis, as well as gestational diabetes and preeclampsia) are taken into account in cardiovascular risk prediction models. “Further studies are needed to confirm our findings and integrate these factors into effective risk prediction models.”