Women reporting a history of infertility had an almost 20% increased risk for developing HF during 15 years of follow-up, particularly HF with preserved ejection fraction, according to an analysis of Women’s Health Initiative data.
“Infertility is a reproductive factor that is consistently underrecognized with respect to CV risk, in part because of the paucity of rigorous data examining CV risk in women with a history of infertility,” Emily S. Lau, MD, MPH, a cardiologist and investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital and instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School,