Why the study?
Breast cancer survivors face higher cardiovascular disease risk than non-breast cancer patients, but contemporary data on cardiovascular mortality within this population remain scarce.
Population
74,733 CVD deaths with comorbid breast cancer aged 25 and above in the United States
Comparison
Stratification by age, race, census region, and urbanization level
Design
Population-based retrospective serial cross-sectional study
Authors
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Alerts clinicians to CVD mortality patterns in breast cancer survivors; leaves open targeted prevention trials.
Cardiovascular mortality among US breast cancer patients significantly declined from 1999 to 2020, though disparities by race and region persist, and mortality from hypertensive diseases and arrhythmias did not follow this declining trend.
Yeo et al. (2024) studied this question.