Cardiovascular Health News

Women with migraine headaches should receive targeted atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease prevention, including attention to safer contraception and safe menopausal hormone therapy, beginning in young adulthood, according to a speaker.

Women with high blood lipid levels during early pregnancy face higher risks of having children with congenital heart disease, according to a study published by Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica.

The maternal mortality rate for non-Hispanic Black women was more than three times higher than it was for non-Hispanic white women, an NIH-funded analysis showed.

The FDA is requesting that manufacturers of statins remove its strongest warning from current prescribing information, which states that these medications should never be used during pregnancy.

Women in northern Europe who lost height during middle age faced a greater risk of early death, primarily due to heart disease or stroke, according to an observational study published in BMJ Open.

When emergent large vessel occlusions cause strokes, women are less likely than men to receive timely care, according to a study presented at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery’s Annual Meeting.

Among women with congenital heart disease, pregnancy was associated with an increase in adverse long-term cardiac outcomes, according to a retrospective longitudinal cohort study.

Premenopausal women who eat more curry and postmenopausal women with a higher daily vitamin B2 intake are less likely to have metabolic syndrome, according to a study of women in Korea published in Menopause.

A strong and graded relationship was found between specific CV risk factors presenting in women before pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes, researchers reported in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

The FDA requested removal of its contraindication against using cholesterol-lowering statin medicines among pregnant patients; however, most patients should stop statins once they learn they are pregnant.