The study involved tens of thousands of women, including over 18,000 who experienced domestic abuse.
He explained:"So in these records we can't discern the exact cause, we just know the patient had died."looked at data from the medical records of tens of thousands of women in the U.K. who visited doctors between January 1, 1995 and December 1, 2017.
A total of 18,547 women had experienced domestic abuse, and their data was matched by age and lifestyle with four women who hadn't experienced domestic violence, to compare their health. The participants were aged 37 on average. Domestic abuse was defined as"any incident or patterns of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening behavior, violence or abuse between those aged 16 or over who are, or have been, intimate partners or family members regardless of gender or sexuality."
Some 27.1 percent of women in the U.K. on average suffer domestic abuse at some point in their lives. In the U.S., one in four women and one in nine men experience some form of intimate partner violence or stalking, according to theThe participants were more likely to come from deprived areas compared with the national U.K. average, and 44.7 percent smoked. Women who experienced domestic abuse were more likely to drink than the other group, at 10.1 percent versus. 3.5 percent.
But domestic abuse survivors were still more likely to have conditions like heart disease and diabetes even when researchers accounted for these variables, suggesting their lifestyles were not the only explanation for higher risk, the team said. More research is needed to understand how to help these women and pinpoint what might explain the link, the authors said.
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