Women's Health

Women with fewer total reproductive years may experience elevated risk for atrial fibrillation and subsequent ischemic stroke, according to findings published in Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology.

The Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, or SAHM, and the North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, or NASPAG, published a position statement in The Journal of Adolescent Health that highlighted the risks that crisis pregnancy centers pose to pregnant adolescents by spreading misinformation and limiting the information available to teens.

Women with HF have significantly greater odds of mortality after elective noncardiac operations than men with HF; however, both are at greater risk than patients who do not have HF at all, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

Women had a higher risk for developing de novo HF after STEMI compared with men, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Beginning Jan. 5, the American Heart Association, with the help of sponsor Weight Watchers Reimagined, will launch the 12-week EmPOWERED & Well Healthier Church Challenge to support the ongoing health and wellness activities of black women and their faith-based communities. Faith-based organizations have until Nov. 10 to apply.

The rates of hepatitis C infection at delivery among pregnant women in the U.S. increased between 2000 and 2015, especially among women with concomitant opioid use disorder, the prevalence of which also increased during that period.

SAN DIEGO — In a session here, Marlene P. Freeman, MD, associate professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and associate director of the Center for Women’s Mental Health at Massachusetts General Hospital, discussed the risks and benefits of different pharmacologic treatment options for women of reproductive age with mental illnesses.

Among patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome, shorter women were less likely to receive lower tidal volume ventilation and women with severe confirmed disease were more likely to die than men, according to a study published in the European Respiratory Journal.

Apple announced that it is launching three studies leveraging the Apple Watch’s capabilities to allow people to track their heart rate and movement, to allow women to track their menstrual cycles and to determine how routine sound exposure affects hearing.

Women who used birth control pills as teenagers were up to three times more likely to experience depression as adults compared with women who started taking the pills as adults or never took them, according to a study published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.