Cardiovascular Health News

Optimizing a person’s CV health before they become pregnant, beginning as early as adolescence, can reduce risk for adverse outcomes during pregnancy and improve CV health for their offspring, researchers reported.

A patient in her early 30s with a history of severe pulmonary hypertension came into my office and expressed that she would like to start a family.

Women who use oral contraceptives are more likely to have an aldosterone-to-renin ratio above the threshold for a positive test for primary aldosteronism than those who do not use oral contraceptives, according to study data.

Patients who survive a pregnancy-associated stroke are at lower risk for death and readmission compared with nonpregnant patients with stroke at 1 year; however, their risks were similar with longer follow-up, researchers reported.

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection is a life-altering event that predominantly affects women, but there is little consensus about how to best diagnose and treat it.

Feb. 3 is Wear Red Day. In support of women’s heart health, Healio and Cardiology Today have curated a list of recent updates in women’s heart health.

Women who had any of five major adverse pregnancy outcomes had elevated risk for ischemic heart disease for as long as 46 years after delivery, researchers reported in The BMJ.

The odds of myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke are greater among women with vs. without preeclampsia for more than 20 years after pregnancy, according to findings published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

Postmenopausal women with hypertension taking estrogen alone or combined with progesterone had a statistically significant increase in systolic blood pressure compare with placebo, according to an analysis of WHI data.

Using Danish registry data of more than 1.3 million residents, researchers observed no association between simple to moderate congenital heart disease and infertility, according to a study in the Journal of the American Heart Association.