Does a diagnosis of cancer increase the risk of cardiovascular disease mortality compared to the general US population?
US cancer patients (all sites, with specific mention of breast, prostate, bladder, and endometrial cancer)
General US population
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortalityhard clinical
Cancer patients have an elevated risk of cardiovascular mortality compared to the general population, highlighting the need for early cardio-oncology evaluation, especially in high-risk groups like endometrial cancer survivors.
The majority of deaths from CVD occur in patients diagnosed with breast, prostate, or bladder cancer. We observed that from the point of cancer diagnosis forward into survivorship cancer patients (all sites) are at elevated risk of dying from CVDs compared to the general US population. In endometrial cancer, the first year after diagnosis poses a very high risk of dying from CVDs, supporting early involvement of cardiologists in such patients.
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Kathleen M. Sturgeon
Lei Deng
Shirley M. Bluethmann
European Heart Journal
National Institutes of Health
Pennsylvania State University
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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Sturgeon et al. (Wed,) studied this question.
www.synapsesocial.com/papers/69d56e1775589c71d767d395 — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehz766