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news-medical.netNew report urges unified lifecycle approach to women's heart healthA new approach to women's heart health may offer them a lifetime of opportunities. A trio of scientific papers, published today in the journal Circulation, spells out how fluctuating hormones, mental health and well-being, the heart and the brain are linked and how those connections need to be a routine part of care from a young age. "Women experience their healthcare across clinical specialties, but it often is fragmented or disconnected. Specifically, these reports connect the dots for clinicians, for patients, and across health domains so that care is holistic and begins in adolescence," Dr. Sadiya Khan, chair of the writing group, said in a news release. Khan is the Magerstadt Professor of Cardiovascular Epidemiology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. "Heart disease and other forms of cardiovascular disease don't suddenly become relevant when we become older women," said Dr. Stacey E. Rosen, immediate past volunteer president of the American Heart Association, who helped write the reports. They view a woman's life in distinct stages – each of which offers chances for early detection, risk factor identification and treatment, she said. The publications are a joint effort among the Heart Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the...
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