Women's Health

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection is a life-altering event that predominantly affects women, but there is little consensus about how to best diagnose and treat it.

Women who had any of five major adverse pregnancy outcomes had elevated risk for ischemic heart disease for as long as 46 years after delivery, researchers reported in The BMJ.

Healthy women who delayed their normal bedtime by 1.5 hours showed endothelial dysfunction, which increases risk for cardiovascular disease, according to a study published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

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CHICAGO — Women continue to be underrepresented as leaders in clinical research and in clinical trials in particular, despite research showing female-led studies recruit more diverse participants, according to a speaker.

The FDA announced it approved a vaccine administered during the third trimester of pregnancy to prevent pertussis — whooping cough — in infants younger than 2 months of age.

Younger women are much more likely than younger men to be readmitted to the hospital after an acute MI for CV or any cause, with data reflecting a higher prevalence of CV risk factors and comorbidities among women compared with men.