VIDEO: Women’s heart disease risk factors should be assessed during menopause transition

ByChrisanda Shufelt, MD, MS, FACP, NCMP

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Certain risk factors for heart disease in women change at the time of menopause.
For that reason, at the time of menopause, lipids and other heart disease risk factors should be assessed.

In this Healio video exclusive, a speaker at the National Lipid Association Scientific Sessions discusses opportunities for heart disease prevention in women at the time of menopause transition.

Chrisandra Shufelt, MD, MS, FACP, MSCP, associate director of the Women’s Health Research Center and professor in and chair of the division of general internal medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, said “there are specific cardiovascular risk factors that change at the time of menopause,” some of which are relevant to ovarian aging, and that women who enter menopause at a younger age have elevated risk for CVD.

In addition, for many women, the lipid profile changes at menopause, including a rise in LDL and triglycerides and a decline in HDL, she said.

Watch the video for more.

Reference:

Shufelt C. Session IV – Women’s cardiovascular challenges. Presented at: National Lipid Association Scientific Sessions; May 30-June 2, 2024; Las Vegas (hybrid meeting).

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