Abstract
The Go Red for Women movement was initiated by the American Heart Association (AHA) in the early 2000s to raise awareness concerning cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in women. In 2016, the AHA funded 5 research centers across the United States to advance our knowledge of the risks and presentation of CVD that are specific to women. This report highlights the findings of the centers, showing how insufficient sleep, sedentariness, and pregnancy-related complications may increase CVD risk in women, as well as presentation and factors associated with myocardial infarction with nonobstructive coronary arteries and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction in women. These projects were augmented by collaborative ancillary studies assessing the relationships between various lifestyle behaviors, including nightly fasting duration, mindfulness, and behavioral and anthropometric risk factors and CVD risk, as well as metabolomic profiling of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction in women. The Go Red for Women Strategically Focused Research Network enhanced the evidence base related to heart disease in women, promoting awareness of the female-specific factors that influence CVD.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | e019519 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-16 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Journal of the American Heart Association |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2021 |
Funding
Stars represent additional ancillary collaborative awards between centers. 1Sarah Ross Soter provided $1 million to support collaborative awards (Soter awards) between Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) and University of California at San Diego (UCSD), New York University (NYU) and UCSD (2 awards), and Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and UCSD. 2Additional collaborative awards was funded by the American Heart Association (AHA) to support internetwork collaborations between the Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation (MWRIF) and University of Iowa [UIowa], JHU and CUIMC, Northwestern University (NU) and MWRIF, and MWRIF, CUIMC, JHU, NYU, and UCSD. 3AHA and Verily collaborative funding was provided to all 5 centers within the Go Red for Women network. CVD, cardiovascular disease. ©Copyright 2020 American Heart Association, Inc. Reproduced with permission. research principal investigators have been successful in obtaining additional independent and collaborative funding from the AHA as well as the National Institutes of Health. Of note, the CUIMC team established a sleep center of excellence to promote sleep and circadian rhythms education and research across the institution. Investigators obtained new R01 Research Grants, an AHA collaborative grant with JHU, and a Research Goes Red grant. The JHU center was renewed to study cardiac sarcomere dysfunction in HFpEF, and JHU received 3 additional SFRN grants from the AHA, namely in obesity, health technologies, and innovation, and cardiometabolic health/diabetes networks. The Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation (MWRIF) center was renewed to study the effects of perinatal stress-related mood disorders on cardiovascular health, and the NYU center was renewed with expanded aims addressing sex as a biological variable affecting MI pathogenesis, platelet activity, and signaling pathways, and the perception and impact of stress. AHA also funded a diabetes SFRN grant to NYU. UCSD obtained a P01 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study cardiometabolic health effects of interrupting sitting among postmenopausal women. This work was funded by AHA 16SFRN27950012 (St-Onge), AHA 16SFRN27960002 and 16SFRN29940002 (Allison), AHA 16SFRN27960011 and AHA 811531 (Aggarwal), AHA 16SFRN28739992 (Berger), AHA 16SFRN27940007 (Castenada, Talavera), AHA 16SFRN28930000 (Catov), AHA 16SFRN27810006 (Hochman), AHA 16SFRN27810001 and AHA 16SFRN28340000 (Hubel), AHA 16SFRN29050000 and NIH R01HL106041 (Jelic), AHA 16SFRN2862000 (Kass), AHA 16SFRN27880000-1 and NIH K99HL148511 (Makarem), AHA 16SFRN27880000 (Mosca), 16SFRN27870000 (Ouyang), AHA 16SFRN27810006 (Park), 16SFRN28680004 (Post), AHA 16SFRN27860002 (Powers), AHA 16SFRN28730004 (Reynolds), AHA 16SFRN28420000 (Sears), AHA 16SFRN28780016 and NIH R01HL107577, R01HL127028, R01HL140731, and R01HL149423 (Shah), AHA 16SFRN28850003 (Spruill).
Keywords
- Health outcomes
- Heart failure
- Myocardial infarction
- Pregnancy
- Sedentary behavior
- Sleep
- Stress
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine