The American Heart Association released an update to their guidelines for CVD prevention in women. The 2011 guidelines provide a greater focus on keeping patients healthy, rather than treating disease. Changes in the guidelines include:
- New recommendation of ”pregnancy as a stress test.” See The Wall Street Journal article, “Problems in Pregnancy Signal Future Health Risks.”
- Low risk patients are categorized as “Optimum Health”
- New geriatrics section
- New lupus as a CVD co-morbidity, focus on CVD prevention in lupus patients
- New recommendation of supplemental fish oils for high risk women
- High dose aspirin risk benefit analysis for high risk women
- Greater emphasis on cultural diversity and sensitivity
View and print the 2011 Guidelines from Circulation here.
View and print the 2011 Guidelines Summary here.
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