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Role of Water-soluble Vitamins in Reducing the Risk of Cardiovascular Heart Disease in Premature Ovarian Insufficiency Patients
Author(s): Rushikesh Rajesh Patil Added: 12 months ago

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Author(s): Rachel Lampert Added: 3 years ago
The increased risk of drug-related torsades de pointes (TdP) and death in women taking ion-channel-active antiarrhythmic drugs was first described 20 years ago. In 1993, Makkar1 identified all case reports or case series of drug-related TdP, finding 332 patients described in 83 articles. The proportion of women versus men in these reported series was compared with the proportion of women versus… View more

Demographic
Author(s): Heather Currie , Christine Williams Added: 3 years ago
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in both men and women, yet the extent of the problem in women is frequently underestimated and, compared with men, women are less likely to be offered interventions, are less likely to be represented in clinical trials and have a worse prognosis. This article aims to examine the extent of the problem of CVD in women, summarise the… View more

Demographic

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
The Role of Isocitrate Dehydrogenases in Direct Reprogramming to Cardiomyocytes
Author(s): Tomoaki Ishida , Tomoe Ueyama , Ai Baba , et al Added: 2 years ago

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Carolyn M Webb
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Personal History Dr Carolyn Webb is based in London, where she works as a research fellow at the National Heart and Lung Institute. Academic History Carolyn studied physiology as an undergraduate at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Then she went on to obtain her PhD in education at Imperial College London. Career Overview Carolyn Webb is a research fellow at the… View more
Author(s): Tracey Keteepe-Arachi , Sanjay Sharma Added: 3 years ago
Globally, cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of mortality in women. Approximately 2.8 million women have been diagnosed with CVD in the UK.1 For many years, the presence of gender-related differences in presentation, risk factors and outcomes have been recognised. Importantly, these discrepancies in presentation and outcomes between the sexes are often associated with… View more

Demographic
HRS 2021: Oral Contraceptive Use in Women with Long QT Syndrome
Author(s): Ilan Goldenberg Added: 2 years ago
In this video, Dr Ilan Goldenberg (University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, US) discusses the potential risk of cardiac events in women with congenital long QT syndrome (LQTS) associated with contraceptive use in this cohort. Questions: 1. Please remind us of the aim, study design and endpoints? 2. What were your key findings? 3. How should your findings impact practice and… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia

CV Disease in Special Populations
Author(s): Esha Sachdev , C Noel Bairey Merz , Puja K Mehta Added: 3 years ago
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TTC) has gained more recognition since its first description in 1990 by Satoh et al.1,2 The word takotsubo refers to the Japanese octopus trapping pot with a large round base and narrow neck, which is the characteristic shape of the left ventricle (LV) in this syndrome, although other morphologies have since been described.3 TTC is known by many names including stress… View more

Heart Failure

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Author(s): Andrew Carson Added: 3 years ago
For many years cardiovascular disease has been a major cause of morbidity and mortality across the developed world, and its incidence is also increasing in many developing countries. Indeed, it has recently been shown that even Egyptian mummies, representing the more affluent members of their society several thousand years ago, had established atherosclerosis in multiple blood vessels.1… View more

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Mechanisms of Coronary Artery Spasm
Author(s): Kensuke Nishimiya , Jun Takahashi , Kazuma Oyama , et al Added: 10 months ago

Prevention & Chronic Conditions