Cardiovascular Health News

Women with long COVID experience heart-rate irregularities after physical exertion, which could constrain their exercise tolerance and their free-living physical activity, according to a study published Experimental Physiology.

Extended-release metformin prolonged gestation compared with placebo in women who had preterm preeclampsia, according to results of a randomized controlled trial.

Older women who primarily ate alone were more likely to have angina and worse nutrition than those who ate with others, according to a South Korean study published in the journal Menopause.

Heart rate monitoring may be a crucial means of detecting rhythm abnormalities in the fetuses of pregnant individuals who are positive for anti-Ro/SSA antibodies, according to data presented at ACR Convergence 2021.

Women with a bone mineral density greater than 1.085 g/cm2 may have less risk for cardiovascular disease than those with a lower BMD, according to study data published in Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases.

In the contemporary CV clinical setting, women continue to present later and receive less aggressive care than men and experience a lower quality of life after cardiac surgery, according to an in-depth review published in Circulation.

Women with endometriosis were at greater risk for stroke even after accounting for known risk factors, according to a study presented at the ASRM Scientific Congress & Expo.

Socioeconomic barriers facing women, including poor access to contraception, postpartum follow-up and maternity leave, can impact their CV health over time, according to a new review.

The Women’s Health Access Matters organization released a report that adding $20 million in CAD research funding for women generates nearly $2 billion in economic benefit.

Maternal cholesterol during pregnancy was an independent risk factor for acute MI severity in young adult offspring, according to study results published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.