Womens Cardiovascular Health

News and new technology innovations for women's cardiovascular health can be found on this channel page. While heart disease is the #1 killer of women, women are affected differently than men when it comes to presentation of heart attack symptoms. Read about the Diagnostic Differences in Women’s Heart Health Additionally, women can face numerous cardiovascular issues related to pregnancy and increased risks due to changes to their bodies during and following pregnancy. Watch a VIDEO on cardio-obstetrics programs. Treatments for cancer, especially radiation and chemo for breast cancer, also can negatively affect the heart. Read about cardio-oncology.

Blog | Structural Heart

My observation over the 13 years covering cardiology is that it is a heavily male-dominated field. This is more ...

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Vivian Ng, M.D., assistant professor of medicine and an interventional cardiologist at the NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia ...

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Technology | Blood Testing

October 9, 2019 — Abbott recently announced that its Architect Stat High Sensitivity Troponin-I blood test has received ...

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August 7, 2019 — Hormone replacement therapy is a common treatment for menopause-related symptoms, and new research from ...

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April 25, 2019  – The thickness of the coronary artery wall as measured by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an ...

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News | Cardiac Diagnostics

April 15, 2019 — For the first time in the United States, doctors with the American Heart Association (AHA) have ...

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News | Cardio-oncology

March 13, 2019 — An imaging procedure commonly performed before starting cancer treatment can provide valuable clues ...

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News | Womens Cardiovascular Health

February 7, 2019 — Giving birth is associated with a 14 percent higher risk of heart disease and stroke compared to ...

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January 11, 2019 — Research suggests that a gene that governs the body’s biological (circadian) clock acts differently ...

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January 10, 2019 — The American Society of Echocardiography Foundation (ASEF) has partnered with WomenHeart: The ...

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January 3, 2019 — Breast cancer patients who take a heart drug at the same time as trastuzumab have less heart damage ...

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November 29, 2018 — Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and snoring may lead to earlier impairment of cardiac function in wome ...

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Cindy Grines, M.D., chair and professor, department of cardiology, Zucker School of Medicine, Hostra/Northwell, spoke on ...

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August 22, 2018 — Breastfeeding is not only good for babies, according to new research in the Journal of the American ...

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August 7, 2018 — Johns Hopkins researchers say a heart imaging study of scores of pregnant women with the most severe ...

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