Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Leo Bokeria. Archive photo MOSCOW, Jan. 6 Men are more likely than women to suffer from cardiovascular diseases, since «a woman is better balanced», her body is tuned to greater physiological stress — pregnancy, the president of the National Medical Research Institute said in an interview with RIA Novosti Center for Cardiovascular Surgery named after Bakulev, President of the All-Russian public organization «League of the Health of the Nation», Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Leo Bokeria.
& # 34; Men. A woman is better balanced & # 34 ;, — Bockeria said, answering the question who is more likely to suffer from cardiovascular diseases.
He explained that a woman's hormonal system is initially arranged for high physiological stress — pregnancy. 
The academician refuted the popular myth about kind people and pain in the heart