Cardiovascular Health News

Women with high prepregnancy BMI have higher stillbirth and perinatal death risks, but this association weakens with chronic hypertension presence, becoming similar or reversing at 26 to 35 weeks’ gestation, researchers reported.

Women diagnosed with advanced breast cancer appeared more likely than those with earlier-stage breast cancer to have pre-existing cardiovascular disease, according to results of a retrospective study.

Gendered racial microaggressions during obstetric care were associated with elevated blood pressure among postpartum individuals up to 3 months after delivery, researchers reported.

High caregiving stress was associated with incident hypertension among a cohort of reproductive-age Black women, according to study findings published in Hypertension.

Women with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction have sex-specific differences in presentation, diagnosis and treatment responses, highlighting the importance of proper diagnoses and guideline-directed medical therapy initiation.

Patients with nonobstructive coronary artery disease often wait years for a diagnosis and experience marked decline in quality of life, according to a speaker at the World Congress on Insulin Resistance, Diabetes & Cardiovascular Disease.

Genetically predicted major depression may present in women, but not men, with increased risk for arrhythmia disorders, coronary artery disease and heart failure, and risk may vary based on menopausal status, researchers reported.

New guidance on primary prevention of stroke from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association states women with endometriosis and early menopause are at higher risk, requiring a thorough history and tailored management.

Women with menopause onset before age 45 years were more likely to develop incident heart failure regardless of serum adipokine levels, according to study findings published in Menopause.