Articles tagged with 'womens heart' | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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,” …

First Lady Jill Biden highlighted the new White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research during a visit to Cedars-Sinai on Friday as she toured research labs and met with scientists.Biden visited Cedars-Sinai because of the organization’s …