Women's Health

Higher magnesium intake was linked to a statistically significant risk reduction in fatal coronary heart disease and a risk reduction for sudden cardiac death among postmenopausal women, according to an analysis published in the Journal of Women’s Health.

Although binge drinking has increased among mothers in the United States from 2006 to 2018, the increase was greater among women without children, according to a study published in PLoS Medicine.

Physically active adults, particularly women, have lower risk for atrial fibrillation and ventricular arrhythmia compared with inactive adults, according to research published in the European Heart Journal.

BP elevations occurred more rapidly in women compared with men and as early as the third decade of life, which may explain why CVD presents at different times between both sexes, according to a study published in JAMA Cardiology.

Women who were enrolled in clinical trials had a lower risk for major adverse CV events compared with men after non-ST segment elevation ACS, according to a sex-specific analysis published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

PHILADELPHIA — Sacubitril/valsartan reduced the risk for HF hospitalization more in women compared with men, and the overall benefit of sacubitril/valsartan was driven by a benefit in patients with chronic HF and a left ventricular ejection fraction below the normal range, according to two analyses of the PARAGON-HF trial of patients with HF with preserved EF presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.

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.