In this week’s View, Dr. Eagle discusses a prospective evaluation of cardiovascular risk ten years after a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy, then looks at the effect of varenicline added to counseling on smoking cessation among African American daily smokers. Finally, Dr. Eagle explores Dr. Nanette Wenger’s Call to Action for Cardiovascular Disease in Women: Epidemiology, Awareness, Access, and Delivery of Equitable Health Care in a Presidential Advisory from the American Heart Association.

Clinical Topics: Cardiovascular Care Team, Diabetes and Cardiometabolic Disease, Dyslipidemia, Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathies, Prevention, Vascular Medicine, Lipid Metabolism, Nonstatins, Hypertension, Smoking

Keywords: Pregnancy, Hypertension, Pregnancy-Induced, Cardiovascular Diseases, Risk Factors, Pre-Eclampsia, Brachial Artery, Vascular Stiffness, Ventricular Remodeling, Heart Disease Risk Factors, Varenicline, Smoking Cessation, Cotinine, Smokers, African Americans, Smoking, Diabetes, Gestational, Amenorrhea, Menarche, Pregnant Women, Cholesterol

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