Cardiovascular Health News

Compared with the usual care, self-monitoring of BP did not improve diagnosis of hypertension or control of BP in high-risk pregnant women, according to two trials published in JAMA.

CHICAGO — Heart disease is a leading health threat for women, according to C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, FACC, FAHA, FESC, the director of the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has published a final recommendation that advises against the initiation of low-dose aspirin for primary CVD prevention in adults aged 60 years or older, a D-grade recommendation.

Postpartum women who participated in a text message intervention that included gamification walked an average of 647 more steps per day compared with similar women who received daily text message feedback without gamification, data show.

A survey of U.S. cardiologists, CV team members and fellows in training revealed few ever received cardio-obstetrics didactics during training and many institutions lacked access to dedicated cardio-obstetrics teams, researchers reported.

Women who self-reported higher adherence to a Mediterranean-style diet were up to 26% less likely to develop preeclampsia compared with women reporting lower adherence to the eating plan, with a stronger benefit observed for Black mothers.

Women reporting a history of infertility had an almost 20% increased risk for developing HF during 15 years of follow-up, particularly HF with preserved ejection fraction, according to an analysis of Women’s Health Initiative data.

Risk for developing HF is significantly greater for women with obesity compared with women with a lower BMI and waist circumference, particularly among those who begin menopause at age 55 years or older, data show.

WASHINGTON — In this Healio video exclusive, the president of the American College of Cardiology discusses the return to an in-person ACC Scientific Session as well as some of the important late-breaking clinical research.

WASHINGTON — Aggressive intraoperative warming during major noncardiac surgery did not reduce myocardial injury, site infections, transfusion requirement or hospitalization stay vs. routine temperature management, a speaker reported.