Women's Health

During the decades before and after total knee arthroplasty, published results showed black women had significantly poorer physical function compared with white women. In addition, poorer physical function after surgery was associated with poorer preoperative physical function.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, physicians across the United States have reported seeing fewer patients, who are fearful of presenting to the office due to the virus.

Healio spoke with Naoko Sasamoto, MD, MPH, from the Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, about her JAMA Oncology study that suggested breastfeeding as a potentially modifiable factor that may decrease risk for ovarian cancer independent of pregnancy alone – and what this means for clinicians.

Aerobic exercise may have little or no part in parasympathetic BP control among fit postmenopausal women, according to research published in Hypertension.

Triglyceride-rich lipoprotein cholesterol was strongly linked to future peripheral artery disease and MI events in women, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Among patients admitted to the hospital with acute MI and spontaneous coronary artery dissection, more than 12% are readmitted within 30 days of discharge, and half of readmissions within 1 week were for cardiac causes.

Two studies published in the Journal of the American Heart Association found that mortality from CAD has increased in women from rural areas since 2009, and having any social determinant of health increases the risk for mortality 90 days after HF hospitalization.

Nearly half of women who participated in NCAA Division I athletics had elevated BP or stage I or stage II hypertension, according to a study presented at the virtual American College of Cardiology Scientific Session.

Six primary prevention risk assessment scores, including the Framingham risk score, Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease risk score and Adult Treatment Panel III risk score, did not adequately predict the rates of CVD in women with ischemia and no obstructive CAD, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Governors and attorneys general in at least four states — citing a need to conserve medical resources during the COVID-19 pandemic — recently tried to ban some abortions in their respective states.