{"id":9222,"date":"2025-10-02T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9222"},"modified":"2025-10-02T15:13:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T19:13:41","slug":"la-covid-fait-vieillir-les-vaisseaux-sanguins-des-femmes-selon-une-etude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/la-covid-fait-vieillir-les-vaisseaux-sanguins-des-femmes-selon-une-etude\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID ages women\u2019s blood vessels, according to a study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 causes women\u2019s blood vessels to age prematurely, according to an international study involving two researchers from Universit\u00e9 Laval. The disease should therefore be considered an additional risk factor in cardiovascular health analyses. Specifically, in those who have developed severe symptoms, they warn.<\/p>\n<p>The aging of blood vessels results in greater rigidity, which can increase the risk of certain cardiovascular diseases.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The heart must work a little harder to propel blood through the arterial system, and this causes variations in pressure that can damage sensitive organs, including the brain and kidneys,&#8221; explains Catherine Fortier, a kinesiologist and researcher in vascular aging at the CHU de Qu\u00e9bec-Universit\u00e9 Laval.<\/p>\n<p>The vast study looked at vascular rigidity in nearly 2,100&nbsp;people, men and women, in 18&nbsp;countries, including 50 in Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>The sample consisted of four groups: infected patients presenting with mild symptoms, infected patients with moderate symptoms, and more severely infected patients. A group of 319&nbsp;patients who have never had COVID-19 was also tested.<\/p>\n<p>Results: premature vascular aging of 5&nbsp;years was observed for the mild and moderate infection groups, and 10&nbsp;years for the severely infected group. These changes were not observed in men, only in women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 causes women\u2019s blood vessels to age prematurely, according to an international study involving two researchers from Universit\u00e9 Laval. The disease should therefore be considered an additional risk factor in cardiovascular health analyses. Specifically, in those who have developed severe symptoms, they warn.<\/p>\n<p>The aging of blood vessels results in greater rigidity, which can increase the risk of certain cardiovascular diseases.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The heart must work a little harder to propel blood through the arterial system, and this causes variations in pressure that can damage sensitive organs, including the brain and kidneys,&#8221; explains Catherine Fortier, a kinesiologist and researcher in vascular aging at the CHU de Qu\u00e9bec-Universit\u00e9 Laval.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/la-covid-fait-vieillir-les-vaisseaux-sanguins-des-femmes-selon-une-etude\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COVID ages women\u2019s blood vessels, according to a study<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1377,96,72,18,70,8,14,1315,15,392],"class_list":["post-9222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-blood-vessels","tag-canada","tag-cardiovascular-disease","tag-covid-19","tag-quebec","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-universite-laval","tag-vaccines","tag-women","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9222"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9226,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9222\/revisions\/9226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}