Heartbeat: cancer history and risk of cardiovascular disease

The number of patients with a history of cancer is increasing due to improved cancer diagnosis and treatment over the past few decades. Although the issue of immediate cancer therapy related cardiotoxicity is well recognised, less attention has been directed towards the long-term risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in patients with prior cancer. In this issue of Heart, Raisi-Estabragh and colleagues1 used a propensity matched design with competing risk regression to study the associations between cancer and CVD in 18 714 UK Biobank participants with a cancer history. Participants with cancer had a high burden of prevalent CVD and vascular risk factors. Interestingly, the associations with incident CVD were related to the specific type of cancer—breast cancer was associated with a higher risk of heart failure (HF), pericarditis and venous thromboembolism (VTE); lung cancer with pericarditis, HF and CVD death; prostate cancer with VTE; and haematological cancer with...
Source: Heart - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tags: Highlights from this issue Source Type: research