Women's Health Archives - Cleveland HeartLab, Inc.

How the Road to Menopause Affects Your Heart

Cleveland HeartLab — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 18:34:48 +0000

If you’re getting close to menopause, you’re probably not looking forward to annoying symptoms like hot flashes and night sweats. But you may not realize that there’s a bigger health concern: a higher risk for heart disease. Doctors have known for a while that the risk for heart attacks and strokes in women after menopause is greater than for women ...

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Heart Risks and Pregnancy

Cleveland HeartLab — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 17:59:33 +0000

More and more, researchers are finding that pregnancy health and related factors in young women are connected to the future heart health of older women. The latest review of 32 studies is the most powerful evidence yet. It is called an “umbrella study,” because it combines the results of many other review studies. Umbrella studies are considered among the highest ...

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A New Role for Statins: Lower Dementia Risk

CHL Marketing — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 19:32:25 +0000

If you’re considering taking a “statin” drug—or you are on one already—you may have questions. These drugs are very good at lowering cholesterol and can reduce the risk of dying from heart disease. But there have been reports of memory problems with the medications. In 2012, the FDA updated its safety information for statins to include memory loss and confusion ...

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Young women, heart attacks and how to prevent them

Cleveland Heartlab — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 22:39:22 +0000

Here’s some good news about heart disease, the number one killer of Americans: the rate of heart attacks and strokes is dropping and has been for decades. That means you are less likely to develop these problems than in the past. But there’s bad news, too: heart attacks are striking more young people, particularly younger women. New research shows that ...

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Heart Disease and Menopause: Does the Risk Start Earlier?

Cleveland Heartlab — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 20:39:59 +0000

When it comes to menopause and heart disease risk, timing could be everything. Doctors have long known that women face a greater risk for heart disease after menopause, the cessation of menstrual periods. But reporting in the Journal of the American Heart Association, researchers at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville recently put a new timestamp on the process. The ...

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A Surprising Heart Disease Risk Factor for Women – Especially Younger Women

Cleveland Heartlab — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 20:35:50 +0000

Women with endometriosis—the growth of uterine tissue outside the uterus—tend to focus their concerns on health problems such as debilitating pelvic pain and infertility. But new research suggests that women with the condition may also face another more deadly health threat: heart disease. Endometriosis, which strikes women of reproductive age, particularly in the later childbearing years, is characterized by the ...

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Two Risk Factors for Heart Disease that Only Women Can Have

Cleveland Heartlab — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 14:25:56 +0000

Cardiovascular disease (CVD), or heart disease, is the number one killer of women in the United States, causing one in four deaths. The majority of women who die suddenly from CVD, 64 percent, never knew they had it because they had no symptoms. As we recently reported, many women aren’t aware of their risk of CVD, even if they do ...

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Many Young Women Don’t Know They’re at Risk Until a Heart Attack Occurs: Here’s Why and How to Protect Yourself

Cleveland Heartlab — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 22:30:32 +0000

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is on the rise among younger women, yet many of them are unaware of their risk until they actually suffer a heart attack, according to a Yale School of Public Health study published in the November issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC). Only 53 percent of the young heart attack survivors studied ...

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Hormone Replacement Therapy: Helpful or Harmful to Women’s Hearts?

Cleveland Heartlab — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:26:05 +0000

The cardiovascular effects of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) vary depending on the age at which women begin taking it after menopause, according to a new systematic review published in The Cochrane Library. The researchers analyzed 19 randomized clinical trials involving 40,410 women, with treatment times ranging from seven months to more than ten years. Overall, the review found that HRT ...

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