Cardiovascular Disease

Healio and Cardiology Today asked leading cardiologists: What is the most important issue in women’s heart health today?

Eating one egg per day does not increase the risk for cardiovascular disease or death, according to a study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

A regimen of bleomycin, etoposide and cisplatin for male germ cell cancer appeared associated with substantially increased risk for cardiovascular disease less than 1 year after treatment and mildly increased risk after 10 years of follow-up, according to results of a retrospective Danish study published in Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, those with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are at twice the risk for cardiovascular outcomes as those without such disorders, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

Intensive glucose management can help adults with type 1 diabetes avoid an initial or subsequent cardiovascular disease or major adverse cardiovascular disease event, according to findings published in Diabetes Care.

Researchers found that individuals who had positive ECG results and normal stress echocardiography had a slightly increased risk for adverse cardiac events. It was the week’s top story in cardiology.

Eating more processed meat, unprocessed red meat and poultry, but not fish, was associated with a slightly increased risk for cardiovascular disease, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Processed meat and unprocessed meat were also associated with a slight increased risk for all-cause mortality.

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among patients with chronic kidney disease.1 There is a progressive increase in mortality risk with declining eGFR below 60 mL/min/1.73 m2 to 75 mL/min/1.73 m2, after risk adjustment for traditional CVD risk factors.2

High-dose chemotherapy followed by hematopoietic stem cell transplantation improved OS among very high-risk patients with breast cancer compared with conventional-dose chemotherapy, according to long-term follow-up of a randomized study published in JAMA Oncology.

Future cardiovascular risk among adult patients with depression may be identifiable early using combined data on metabolic syndrome and inflammation, according to results of a population-based cohort study published in JAMA Psychiatry. Researchers used this data to determine that one-third of the association of depression with elevated arterial stiffness index levels during midlife may be accounted for by combined inflammatory and metabolic syndrome processes.