{"id":6478,"date":"2011-02-15T13:31:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T18:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?p=6478"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:34","slug":"aha-releases-updated-guidelines-for-the-prevention-of-cv-disease-in-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2011\/02\/15\/aha-releases-updated-guidelines-for-the-prevention-of-cv-disease-in-women\/","title":{"rendered":"AHA Releases Updated Guidelines for the Prevention of CV Disease in Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 13.0px Georgia} li.li2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 13.0px Georgia} span.s1 {text-decoration: underline ; color: #3207ee} ul.ul1 {list-style-type: disc} -->Newly published online in <em>Circulation<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/circ.ahajournals.org\/cgi\/reprint\/CIR.0b013e31820faaf8v1\">updated AHA guidelines for the prevention of cardiovascular disease in women<\/a> emphasize practical medical advice.\u00a0\u201cThese recommendations underscore the fact that benefits of preventive measures seen day-to-day in doctors\u2019 offices often fall short of those reported for patients in research settings,\u201d said Lori Mosca, chair of the guidelines writing committee, in an AHA press release. \u201cMany women seen in provider practices are older, sicker, and experience more side effects than patients in research studies. Factors such as poverty, low literacy level, psychiatric illness, poor English skills, and vision and hearing problems can also challenge clinicians trying to improve their patients\u2019 cardiovascular health.\u201d  The guidelines state that some once-common therapies are not effective and may be harmful when used for the prevention of cardiovascular disease in women, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hormone therapy and selective estrogen-receptor modulators (SERMSs)<\/li>\n<li>Antioxidant supplements<\/li>\n<li>Folic acid<\/li>\n<li>Routine use of aspirin to prevent MI in women &lt;65<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The guidelines incorporate information about lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and pregnancy complications in the evaluation of risk in women.\u00a0\u201cThese have not traditionally been top of mind as risk factors for heart disease,\u201d said Mosca in the press release.<\/p>\n<p>The document also incorporates the impact of\u00a0racial and ethnic diversity on cardiovascular disease in women, including the significant impact of hypertension in African-American women and diabetes in Hispanic women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly published online in Circulation, updated AHA guidelines for the prevention of cardiovascular disease in women emphasize practical medical advice.\u00a0\u201cThese recommendations underscore the fact that benefits of preventive measures seen day-to-day in doctors\u2019 offices often fall short of those reported for patients in research settings,\u201d said Lori Mosca, chair of the guidelines writing committee, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[595,698],"class_list":["post-6478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prevention","tag-guidelines","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}