Women's Health

Cognitive scores were lower in the presence of hypertensive retinopathy in mid-life and older women, according to a speaker at the virtual Prevent Blindness: Focus on Eye Health National Summit.

A partnership between a health system and a Medicaid payer increased postpartum visits among high-risk, low-income new mothers in New York City, according to a report in the American Journal of Public Health.

Beta-blocker use may precipitate HF in women with new-onset CHD but not in men, researchers found.

Women’s health advocates discussed the potential health consequences of a Supreme Court decision to remand a case providing women with free contraception access back to a lower court.

Women who developed migraine with aura had a higher incidence rate of CVD vs. women who developed migraine without aura or had no migraine, according to a cohort study published in JAMA.

Among women living with HIV, those at high psychosocial risk had higher carotid plaque prevalence and were more likely to have formed new plaque compared with those at low psychosocial risk, researchers reported.

Women appeared to have a greater lifetime risk for obsessive-compulsive disorder than men, according to results of a meta-analysis published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

The Women’s Preventive Services Initiative, after reviewing more than 2,000 abstracts and 300 full-text articles, recommended that primary care physicians screen women and adolescent girls aged 13 years or older for anxiety.

Women who delivered babies earlier than 37 weeks had increased risk for ischemic heart disease throughout their lifetime, researchers found.

Women’s National Basketball Association athletes frequently have increased cardiac dimensions, which can be affected by body surface area and physiologic findings, researchers reported.