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Postpartum thrombosis risk high for 12 weeks

Posted on: 13/02/2014 - 20:50

SAN DIEGO – The risk of thrombosis after giving birth remains significantly elevated for 12 weeks after delivery, twice as long as previously thought, an analysis of data on 1.7 million women...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Postpartum elevated thrombosis risk lasts 12 weeks

Posted on: 13/02/2014 - 20:40

The risk of thrombosis in women giving birth for the first time was 10- to 11-fold higher in the first 6 weeks postpartum, but in a report presented at the International Stroke Conference, Dr. Hooman...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Sepsis less common, less deadly in pregnancy

Posted on: 13/02/2014 - 18:00

SAN FRANCISCO – The incidence of severe sepsis was nearly five times lower and the risk of death from severe sepsis was 43% lower during pregnancy, compared with nonpregnant women, in a large...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Removing opposite breast cuts 20-year mortality 48% in BRCA mutation carriers

Posted on: 11/02/2014 - 23:30

Among early-stage breast cancer patients who carry BRCA mutations, prophylactic mastectomy of the contralateral breast appears to reduce the risk of dying from breast cancer within 20 years by 48%,...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

New stroke guidelines focus on women’s risks

Posted on: 06/02/2014 - 21:00

Newly released guidelines provide the first evidence-based recommendations for preventing stroke in women. The document addresses the issues that uniquely increase stroke risk in women – pregnancy,...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Physicians want to vaccinate, but money gets in the way

Posted on: 03/02/2014 - 22:00

While almost all internists and family physicians feel a responsibility to ask about patients’ immunization status at least annually, most refer them to another source for all but basic seasonal...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Postpartum care after gestational diabetes is preconception care as well

Posted on: 07/01/2014 - 20:05

WASHINGTON – The rise in gestational diabetes cases demands new strategies for active postpartum care that will not only assist with prevention of type 2 diabetes, but will also prepare women for...

Field of Interest: Endocrinology

Type: News Item

In utero exposure to dyslipidemia magnifies LDL risk in offspring

Posted on: 06/01/2014 - 15:15

DALLAS – Elevated LDL cholesterol in women before childbirth was associated with a fivefold increased risk of elevated LDL 2 decades later in their young adult offspring in a new analysis from the...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Opportunities to boost cardiovascular disease awareness

Posted on: 30/12/2013 - 21:25

DALLAS – A mere 28% of 1,013 surveyed New York–area women correctly identified cardiovascular disease as the No. 1 killer of women. And two-thirds of those women said their primary care provider is...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

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