Cardiovascular Health News

Women with high blood pressure during pregnancy, particularly preeclampsia or eclampsia, experienced a greater decline in cognitive function later in life, according to findings published in Neurology.

NEW ORLEANS — People who became pregnant using assisted reproductive technologies were twice as likely to develop preeclampsia compared with traditional pregnancy, researchers reported at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session.

Women remain at significantly higher risk than men for adverse outcomes after coronary artery bypass grafting with no substantial improvements observed in the last decade, according to a retrospective cohort study published in JAMA Surgery.

CVD is responsible for approximately one in three deaths among women in the U.S. each year, yet only 38% of participants in clinical CVD trials are women, according to the American Heart Association.

Research suggests that women are more vulnerable to common mental health conditions compared with men at all stages of the life course, which can also have important implications for CVD risk.

Black women aged 20 to 50 years with hypertension are more than twice as likely to have uncontrolled BP compared with white women, independent of social determinants of health and modifiable health behaviors, researchers reported.

Rates of optimal CV health as determined by the American Heart Association’s Life’s Essential 8 among gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals vary by sex and sexual identity, researchers reported.

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy were associated with greater risks for certain cardiovascular diseases within 24 months of delivery, according to a presenter at The Pregnancy Meeting.

In patients with atrial fibrillation, compared with usual care, early rhythm control therapy reduced risk for poor outcomes in both sexes, according to new data from the EAST-AFNET 4 trial.

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy were associated with higher risk for coronary artery disease and stroke, which was only partially mediated by cardiometabolic factors, according to findings from a study using mendelian randomization.