Search Tag: women's heart health
2021 27 Jul
A study of more than 18 million pregnancies shows a strong and graded relationship between women’s heart health and pregnancy outcomes. The research is published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. The researchers examined the presence of four risk factors for cardiovascular disease in women prior to pregnancy: unhealthy body...Read more
2020 31 Jan
Women have steeper increases in blood pressure than men throughout their life, and cardiovascular disease presents itself much differently in women than men. While biology is an important concept when defining the sex differences in the pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease, its pathophysiologic alterations, and variability in treatment effectiveness,...Read more