Understanding connection between poverty, childhood trauma and heart disease

Traumatic childhood experiences among the and are associated higher cardiovascular risk, including adults. That had not been extensively before, the study's lead and Understanding connection between professor of social at Columbia University in York. Researchers 12, adults who were randomly to apply Medicaid the Oregon Health Insurance Participants were assessed cardiovascular risks and asked childhood experiences such as mental illness.

Survivors of childhood cancer have a higher risk of developing a range of heart disease due to cancer therapy, according to new research published in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation. Most studies of this survivor group have focused on heart failure related to anthracyclines, a class of chemotherapy medications used to treat many types of cancer. In this new study, researchers used data from Ontario's health care system to investigate the full spectrum of heart disease subtypes in close to heart disease in children 7,300 childhood cancer survivors (diagnosed at an average age of 7) -- compared to more than 36,000 people of the same age, gender and postal code without cancer. Heart disease studied included coronary artery disease, arrhythmias, valve abnormalities, cardiomyopathy, heart failure and pericardial disease. Researchers found that, even at relatively young ages, childhood cancer survivors have up to a threefold increase for any cardiac event and up to a tenfold increased risk for heart failure when compared to their cancer-free peers.

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