Age, BMI Tied to Chemo-Related Heart Damage in BrCa Patients

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besa
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edited July 2015 in Clinical Trials, Research News, Podcasts, and Study Results

http://www.medpagetoday.com/HematologyOncology/Bre...

"Age and body mass index (BMI) were found to be independent predictors of anthracycline-related diastolic dysfunction in an analytical prospective cohort study of breast cancer patients undergoing treatment with broad-spectrum anthracycline chemotherapy, researchers said.".....

"Cardiotoxicity hits more than half of breast cancer patients receiving anthracyclines"


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  • besa
    besa Member Posts: 1,088
    edited July 2015

    http://theoncologist.alphamedpress.org/content/ear...

    I went to the original article. Higher BMI and greater age were at higher risk for cardiac problems. I went through the article quickly but seems they compared older than 50 years vs younger than 50 years and BMI of 29.6 vs 25.7 kg/m2. I totally agree that the MedPage could do a much better job with this abstract. "The incidence of diastolic dysfunction during follow-up was 57%" ...of the study group.

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