Cardiovascular Health News

Clinicians must consider adverse social factors and nonbiological variables, such as language barriers, health care access and discrimination, to better address CVD risk among women from underrepresented backgrounds, researchers reported.

Risk-stratified timed birth at term, either via labor induction or cesarean delivery, may more than halve the risk for at-term preeclampsia, a leading cause of maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity, researchers reported.

Pharmacological treatment of mild hypertension during pregnancy is associated with lower risks for several adverse outcomes, including severe hypertension, preeclampsia, placental abruption, renal impairment and pulmonary edema, data show.

Among cardiac arrest survivors, women were more likely to report anxiety, depressive symptoms and PTSD than men, researchers reported at the European Society of Cardiology’s Acute Cardiovascular Care congress.

Women with greater adherence to the Mediterranean diet had a significantly reduced risk for CVD and total mortality, according to the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis published in Heart.

Women with a history of infertility have an increased risk for CHD, but not stroke, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

For medicine to advance, entrenched paradigms must yield to new evidence. The widely held belief that menopausal hormone therapy causes breast cancer, and thus should never be given to breast cancer survivors, must be reassessed.

More than ever before, women today may have more information — and misinformation — about menopause.

NEW ORLEANS — Elevated levels of high-sensitivity troponin I precede the development of preeclampsia, and the marker may have potential for “grading” risk in pregnant women, researchers reported.

Cardiac arrest occurred in about one in every 9,000 delivery hospitalizations from 2017 to 2019 in the United States, and about seven in 10 women survived the event, according to the results published in Annals of Internal Medicine.