Posts by Emily Lau, MD, MPH
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History of Infertility in Women Linked to Risk of Future Heart Failure
Emily S. Lau, MD, MPH, Jennifer E. Ho, MD, and colleagues found infertility in women is associated with a 16% greater risk of heart failure overall. This was driven by a 27% greater risk of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, but not heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.
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Arterial Stiffness and Load Significantly Higher in Women Than Men With HFpEF
Emily Lau, MD, Jennifer E. Ho, MD, and colleagues observed arterial stiffness and load are closely tied to invasive measures of hemodynamic responses to exercise in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. The association was particularly pronounced in women.
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Greater COVID-19 Severity in Men May Be Due to Greater Inflammatory Response
Emily S. Lau, MD, Jenna N. McNeill, MD, and Jennifer E. Ho, MD, of the Cardiovascular Research Center, and colleagues present evidence that men have more robust systemic inflammation in response to SARS-CoV-2 infection than women do, which may explain men's apparently greater risk of severe COVID-19.
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Review: Does Patient–Physician Gender Concordance Influence Patient Perceptions or Outcomes?
Emily S. Lau, MD, and Malissa J. Wood, MD, of the Cardiology Division, and colleagues determined through a systematic review that data on the effect of patient–physician gender concordance on patient outcomes and preferences are limited and mixed.
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Exploring Associations Between Heart Disease and Cancer Risk
While cancer risk increases significantly in patients with a cardiovascular event, researchers are still working to identify the reasons for the association. Emily Lau, MD, reviews new findings that point to inflammation as a potential treatment target and mechanism linking the two conditions.
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Men and Women with HFpEF Differ in Physiologic Responses to Exercise
In a study that may improve the understanding of pathophysiologic mechanisms, women and men who had heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) differed in cardiac and skeletal muscle responses to exercise. Women with HFpEFexhibited worse systolic reserve, diastolic reserve and peripheral oxygen extraction.
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E-cigarette Use Negatively Affects Lipid Levels and Myocardial Blood Flow
The results of two studies presented at the 2019 AHA Scientific Sessions showed that e-cigarette use was associated with elevated cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein, as well as lower myocardial blood flow. Emily Lau, MD, and Islam Elgendy, MD, share what the results mean for physicians and patients.
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Pregnant Women with High-Risk Cardiac Conditions Require Multidisciplinary Care
An increasing number of pregnant women have cardiovascular disease, a major contributor to maternal morbidity and mortality. In a recent review, Doreen DeFaria Yeh, MD, and Emily Lau, MD highlight management strategies and encourage general cardiologists and obstetricians to collaborate to care for these women with highly complex cardiac conditions.
Biography
Emily Lau, MD, MPH, is an attending cardiologist at the Corrigan Minehan Heart Center and director of Menopause in the Hormones & Cardiovascular Disease Clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Lau is also an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Cardiovascular Care at Mass General
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