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Women with serum folate levels that were too low or too high during midpregnancy were more likely to have an infant born with congenital heart disease, with maternal vitamin B12 and homocysteine levels modulating risk, researchers reported.

DENVER — Selective impairments in regional fetal brain growth predicted adverse development among infants with congenital heart disease, according to study findings presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting.

Patients with coronary heart disease reported reduced anxiety and depression symptoms when taking escitalopram compared with those who exercised or took a placebo, according to findings published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Despite weight-loss benefits for secondary CHD prevention, obesity management remains prevalent and challenging, especially among women and younger individuals, according to study findings.

Women have a lower risk for all-cause mortality, coronary heart disease and other poor health outcomes when hormone therapy begins close to menopause and continues long term, according to a speaker.

Patients who consumed at least 7 g per day of olive oil had lower risk for CHD and total CVD compared with those who did not consume it, according to data presented at the American Heart Association Epidemiology, Prevention, Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health Scientific Sessions.

Smoking has been shown to have significant associations with peripheral artery disease, CHD and stroke, with the strongest link seen for PAD, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.