When a woman receives a breast cancer diagnosis, she likely isn’t thinking about her heart health. But, experts at the American Heart Association (AHA) say, she probably should be.

Catheter ablation was associated with significantly fewer deaths and hospitalizations for worsening heart failure than medical therapy in a randomized trial of patients with atrial fibrillation (AFib) and heart failure.

Certain breast cancer therapies, including popular HER-2 targeted treatments, could be harmful to the heart in patients already at an increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD), the American Heart Association reported this week in a new scientific statement.

Only 30 percent of Medicare patients who received ventricular assist devices (VADs) in 2014 attended cardiac rehabilitation, but those patients enjoyed significant decreases in hospitalizations and mortality over the following year, according to a study in JACC: Heart Failure.

The benefits of vitamin D aren’t limited to improving bone health and fighting disease—the “sunshine vitamin” has now been shown to help restore damage to heart patients’ cardiovascular systems, according to research published in the International Journal of Nanomedicine this week.

A group of researchers are further disproving medicine’s “July phenomenon”—the myth that clinical care suffers in the summertime due to an influx of new hospital residents—with a study of nearly one million acute ischemic stroke patients.

Compared to patients who used warfarin prior to experiencing intracerebral hemorrhage, those who took non-vitamin K oral anticoagulants (NOACs) were 25 percent less likely to die in the hospital, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

It might be a tall order, but breastfeeding more than five children, as well as breastfeeding for a cumulative eight years, can dramatically lower a mother’s chance of developing hypertension, a pair of researchers found in a study of more than 3,000 postmenopausal women.