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Cardiovascular disease and cancer: shared risk factors and mechanisms

Nature Reviews - Cardiology

Nature Reviews Cardiology, Published online: 10 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41569-024-01017-x Patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) have an increased risk of cancer, and patients with cancer have an increased risk of CVD.

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Study Identifies Incidence, Risk Factors of Acute Kidney Injury in Cancer Patients

HCPLive

mortality rate among patients with cancer and AKI due to a variety of risk factors, ranging from length of ICU stay to sepsis. Results showed a 50.5%

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Preventing Cancers by Modifying Risk Factors

CTVS

New research shows that many cases of cancer and resulting deaths could have been prevented if Americans modified some of their unhealthy lifestyle habits.

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Long-term Survivors of Childhood Cancer at Higher Risk of Death Following Heart Issues; Threshold for Treating Risk Factors Should be Lower

DAIC

The findings – published this week in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology — could fuel advocacy for a paradigm shift in clinical heart health guidelines to address cardiovascular risk factors at an earlier age in childhood cancer survivors. “We Wendy Bottinor, MD.

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Sleep Apnea a Risk Factor For Heart Failure From Cancer Therapy

American College of Cardiology

Sleep apnea is prevalent among patients at higher risk for developing congestive heart failure (CHF) following cancer treatment and could be used as a risk factor to identify patients who would benefit from earlier treatment, according to a study being presented at ACC’s Advancing the Cardiovascular Care of the Oncology Patient course.

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Long-term risk of heart failure in adult cancer survivors: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Heart BMJ

Background Cancer survivors are at increased risk of heart failure (HF). While cardiotoxicity is commonly sought at the time of cancer chemotherapy, HF develops as a result of multiple ‘hits’ over time, and there is limited evidence regarding the frequency and causes of HF during survivorship. compared with 1.7%

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Air Pollution Shared Risk Factor For CVD, Cancer; More in SDoH Focus Issue of JACC: CardioOncology

American College of Cardiology

Air pollution can greatly increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality in patients with cancer and can contribute to health disparities related to both conditions,

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