Women's Health

A survey of U.S. cardiologists, CV team members and fellows in training revealed few ever received cardio-obstetrics didactics during training and many institutions lacked access to dedicated cardio-obstetrics teams, researchers reported.

Risk for developing HF is significantly greater for women with obesity compared with women with a lower BMI and waist circumference, particularly among those who begin menopause at age 55 years or older, data show.

Minimally invasive surgery conferred lower survival rates than open surgery among women with cervical cancer, according to randomized phase 3 trial results presented at Society of Gynecologic Oncology 2022 Annual Meeting on Women's Cancer.

A meta-analysis of atrial fibrillation trials shows women were substantially less represented than men, with an absolute difference of 12.5 percentage points relative to the general population of people with AF, researchers reported.

Certain kinds of oral microbiota were associated with development of hypertension, researchers reported in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Black women who reported having a negative net worth were 2.5 times more likely to have sustained hypertension compared with Black women reporting positive net worth, independent of education level and income, researchers reported.

Women reporting a history of sexual assault and workplace sexual harassment were at increased risk for developing hypertension at 7 years, according to research published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

The Women’s Health Access Matters Collaborative announced the appointment of seven new members, including a cardiologist.

CVD is the leading cause of death in women globally, but women are less likely to receive CV procedures than men, and not enough is known about sex differences for those procedures, a panel concluded.

Health status improved for men and women after nonprimary PCI, but researchers observed more limited improvement among women, with worse health status compared with men at 6 weeks and 9 months after PCI.