Cardiometabolic Disorders News

Women with persistent sleep-disordered breathing during and after pregnancy had an increased risk for hypertension and metabolic syndrome, according to data published in the American Journal of Respiratory Critical Care Medicine.

A history of pregnancy loss may be an independent risk factor for future CVD, CHD and stroke, according to an analysis of the Nurses’ Health Study II published in the European Heart Journal.

Optimizing indoor lighting to be brighter during daytime hours and dimmer in the evening may provide cardiometabolic benefits, according to study findings published in Diabetologia.

Among adults who undergo radioactive iodine therapy for differentiated thyroid cancer, risk for hepatic dysfunction is elevated for men and all with low free thyroxine or high triglycerides, according to study data.

Homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia, although rare, is frequently undertreated, especially in non-high-income countries, and is sometimes diagnosed after atherosclerosis or aortic stenosis is already present, researchers reported.

Presence of hyperglycemia at hospital admission for stroke was linked with elevated risk for subsequent stroke by 90 days, an increase that dual antiplatelet therapy seemingly failed to curtail, researchers reported.

Risk for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction due to elevated N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide levels is higher for women with early menopause compared with those without early menopause, according to study data.

Among patients with stable CHD, CV risk factors and markers were more common among those with higher BMI; however, risk for CV and all-cause death was greatest in patients who were underweight or had very high BMI, researchers reported.

Adults who underwent gastric bypass were more likely to discontinue and less likely to restart medications for hypertension, hyperlipidemia and diabetes than those who underwent sleeve gastrectomy, according to study findings.

Adults with CVD, diabetes or chronic respiratory diseases and comorbid psychiatric conditions are at “substantially” increased risk for premature death or death by suicide compared with adults without psychiatric comorbidities, data show.