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2026
May
26,
2026
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07:00 AM
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Pregnancy is a window into a woman’s cardiovascular future, a new report shows.Smidt Heart Institute cardiologist Janet Wei, MD, is one of the authors of a maternal health report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, a …
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February
24,
2026
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, has a pretty good idea why many women with heart disease don’t get the healthcare they need.“Too often, when a young woman has heart disease symptoms, a physician will ignore those symptoms and tell her that she needs to …
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February
17,
2026
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11:28 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Institute on Aging have awarded a multi-institutional research team led by investigators in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai $7.5 million to further study how damage to tiny blood …
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February
02,
2026
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai maternal-fetal medicine specialists have developed a postpartum blood pressure monitoring program that is receiving high marks from patients and addressing health risks faced by women during and after childbirth.Hypertensive disorders …
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2025
September
02,
2025
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06:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Although cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death for women, they remain underrepresented in clinical trials for common heart conditions. These findings, by investigators in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, were presented at the …
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February
19,
2025
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06:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Activist-philanthropist Erika J. Glazer has turned her giving into a knowledge-generating engine by establishing three chairs in women’s heart health research at Cedars-Sinai.“To see this level of investment in women’s heart health is remarkable,” …
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2024
November
21,
2024
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06:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Ananth Karumanchi, MD, professor of Medicine, director of the Renovascular Research Center and the Medallion Chair in Vascular Biology at Cedars-Sinai, will lead a multicenter, international research team to study how the placenta affects the heart …
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April
24,
2024
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Investigators in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai and colleagues report that women with Type 2 diabetes diagnosed with hypertension before age 50 may benefit from intensive blood pressure treatment.The findings, published in Diabetes Care, …
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February
19,
2024
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11:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
A new study from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai shows there is a gap between women and men when it comes to exercise.The findings, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), show that women can exercise less …
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February
16,
2024
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08:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Experts at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai who have studied progress made over decades of research say there’s still a long way to go before medical science fully understands how heart disease is different in women than men.But there is …
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2023
November
16,
2023
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06:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Investigators from the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai have found that among a cohort of women with obstructive coronary artery disease treated at academic medical centers, racial and ethnic …
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