Millions of women live with uterine fibroids — and now, new research shows they may carry a much higher risk of heart disease ...

Doctors say the rise in fibroid cases is influenced by a combination of factors including genetics, hormonal imbalance, ...

In a new study, women diagnosed with these common growths had a more than 80 percent higher risk of developing heart disease ...

More than 26 million U.S. women have the typically benign tumors, which can often cause debilitating symptoms and other ...

Uterine fibroids are associated with an increased risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) up to 10 years after diagnosis.

This increased risk held across all individual components of the composite ASCVD endpoint (coronary artery disease, ...

Presence of uterine fibroids was associated with increased risk for atherosclerotic heart disease compared with absence of ...

Women with uterine fibroids had a more than 80 percent higher risk of developing heart disease than those without the ...

Uterine fibroids, though usually non-cancerous, have a profound impact on a your body. They can cause pelvic pain, heavy menstrual bleeding, and weight gain in the abdomen. For many people, noticing ...

Uterine fibroid tumors can be painful and troublesome – and sometimes undiagnosed. “Up to 30% of women have them and don't know,” Samy Iskandar, an obstetrician and gynecologist at Bon Secours OB-GYN, ...

Uterine fibroids affect up to 80 percent of people with a uterus (and are two to three times more likely to occur in Black women)—and uterine fibroids symptoms tend to be “loud and obnoxious,” says ...

Women diagnosed with uterine fibroids have a more than 80% higher risk of developing heart disease, researchers reported in a new study.