Cardiovascular Health News

Despite larger declines in STEMI and non-STEMI events from 2011 to 2018, women received proportionately fewer revascularization procedures and had a higher STEMI mortality rate vs. men, researchers reported.

Epidemiological data show women with schizophrenia are 63% more likely to develop CVD during 3.5 years of follow-up compared with those without the condition, with a greater risk observed for women with obesity.

Women who experience cardiac arrest in public locations have a decreased likelihood of receiving bystander CPR and automated external defibrillator application than men, regardless of neighborhood race composition, researchers reported.

Women who experienced the death of a partner or older child during or around the time of pregnancy were more likely to have offspring who developed HF by midlife, Danish and Swedish register data show.

Increased daily physical activity was associated with lower risk for overall de novo heart failure and HF with preserved ejection fraction among older women, according to study findings published in JAMA Cardiology.

Polycystic ovary syndrome was associated with increased risk for CVD in women, and while incidence varies, its prevalence worldwide increased since 1990, researchers reported.

Migraine plus persistent vasomotor symptoms is associated with greater CVD risk and stroke for women, according to a secondary data analysis published in Menopause.

Compared with men, women are less likely to die of any cause or from CV-specific causes when performing similar amounts of weekly leisure-time physical activity, suggesting there are sex-specific benefits to exercise, researchers reported.

In this video exclusive, Nicole Gomez, MD, talks with Caroline T. Nguyen, MD, about diagnosing and managing thyroid dysfunction in the postpartum period.

Clinicians should screen and carefully follow women during the first year after delivery to reduce long-term CVD risk and optimize CV health after pregnancy, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association.