Cardiovascular Health News

Irregular and long menstrual cycles were associated with elevated risk for incident CVD events, primarily CHD, according to research published in JAMA Network Open.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — In this video exclusive, Nanette Santoro, MD, describes paradigm shifts in understanding the menopause transition and its implications for health.

Women with gestational diabetes have increased risks for overall and specific types of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, whether or not they go on to develop type 2 diabetes, according to study data published in The BMJ.

Women with cardiomyopathy were more likely to experience adverse outcomes such as stillbirth compared with women who had noncardiomyopathy cardiac disease or no cardiac disease, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Younger women are much more likely than younger men to be readmitted to the hospital after an acute MI for CV or any cause, with data reflecting a higher prevalence of CV risk factors and comorbidities among women compared with men.

Women with severe preeclampsia who took nifedipine once daily during labor and delivery were less likely to need fast-acting medicine to control their blood pressure during labor, according to a study published in Hypertension.

Among patients who had catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation, women were more likely than men to require hospitalization for more than 1 day, to have major adverse events and to have poor quality of life outcomes, researchers reported.

Risk for a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy after a frozen embryo transfer was substantially higher than after natural conception, even when controlling for constant parental characteristics within sibships, researchers reported.

Mortality from CAD has fallen dramatically in the U.S. overall during the past 40 years due to rapid progress in prevention and treatment strategies, yet data show younger women have not benefited from this trend.

CHICAGO — A biomarker of systemic inflammation, the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio during the first trimester of pregnancy may predict the development of preeclampsia, data showed.