Long-term use of Antibiotics in the middle-aged and elderly women increases CVD Risk

In this study which examined the antibiotic use in different life-stages, longer duration of exposure to antibiotics in the middle and older adulthood was related to an increased risk of future CVD events among elderly women at usual risk.

Middle-aged and elderly women who use antibiotics for long period of time are exposed to a higher risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) events, based on recent research published in the European Heart Journal.

In an eight-year follow up of about 36,500 female participants in the Nurses’ Health Study (NSH) who were free of CVD at baseline,
women 60 years or older who took antibiotics for 2 months or more had the greatest risk for CVD, after adjustment for demographic, lifestyle, medical, and medication-related covariates. The investigators also found that long-term use of antibiotics could increase cardiovascular risk if taken by women at midlife (40–59 years).

“The take-home message is that long-term use of antibiotics may be linked to a higher risk of CVD among women,” said Qi, who is also an adjunct professor of nutrition at Harvard T.C. Chan School of Public Health, Boston.

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Source: Medscape

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Akbar Shafiee

Akbar Shafiee
I am a specialist in preventive and community medicine currently working as a practitioner at Tehran Heart Center and as a research associate at the Cardiovascular Diseases Research Institute of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. I have devoted my professional life to cardiovascular research in order to provide answers to many clinical and epidemiological question in this field. I studied medicine at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran (1996-2003). After doing my military service for the Iranian Army (land force) in the Western borders of Iran, I began my career as a physician in the private section. Science always drives me forward so I joined the cardiovascular research department of Tehran Heart Center in 2009. In 2010 I moved to the Netherlands to begin a master's degree in vitality and ageing at Leiden University. After graduation in 2011, I returned to Iran with a new scientific vision and began my career as a research assistant at Tehran Heart Center. Simultaneously, I joined the knowledge management unit of Rejaee Heart Hospital to develop the national guidelines in Cardiology. In September 2014, I began my residency in preventive and community medicine and got my specialty degree in September 2018. I have published over 75 articles in medical sciences and have conducted many workshops in scientific writing and methodology. I enjoy working with students and I am supervising two research groups on AI and systematic review at the moment.
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