VIDEO: ‘We need to aggressively treat’ women with diabetes
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Key takeaways:
- Diabetes raises risk for heart disease and other conditions.
- Microvascular disease underpins the risk for heart disease in many women with diabetes, and needs to be treated.
PHILADELPHIA — In this Healio video exclusive, Healio | Cardiology Today Editorial Board Member Annabelle Santos Volgman, MD, FACC, FAHA, discusses how microvascular disease raises CVD risk, especially in women and in those with diabetes.
Volgman, who is the Madeleine and James McMullen – Carl E. Eybel, MD Chair of Excellence in Clinical Cardiology Professor of Excellence in Clinical Cardiology and the co-founder and medical director of the Rush Heart Center for Women, gave a presentation at the Heart in Diabetes CME Conference on how microvascular disease and small-vessel disease raise risk for CVD and other conditions in women.
“People with diabetes have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease, especially women,” Volgman said. “The reason why they might have higher risk is because of the microvascular disease that may be underlying their disease. We need to aggressively treat these diabetic women with lipid-lowering agents, blood pressure agents and aspirin if needed.”
Watch the video for more.
Reference:
- Volgman AS. Session 1 – Heart Disease in Women. Presented at: Heart in Diabetes CME Conference; June 9-11, 2023; Philadelphia.
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