Prognosis of acute coronary syndromes after radiotherapy for breast cancer.

Background And Purpose: Breast cancer patients treated with radiotherapy are at increased risk of subsequent acute coronary syndromes (ACS). We aimed to study if radiotherapy also influences the prognosis of these ACS.

Materials And Methods: We included all 398 patients diagnosed with ACS following radiotherapy from our hospital-based cohort of early breast cancer patients aged <71 years, treated 1970-2009.

Trends in the risk of cardiovascular disease in women with breast cancer in a Dutch nationwide cohort study.

Objectives: To investigate trends in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk following breast cancer using national registry data.

Methods: A nationwide cohort study was conducted, comprising 163 881 women with in situ (7.6%) or invasive (92.

Comorbidity in patients with cardiovascular disease in primary care: a cohort study with routine healthcare data.

Background: Comorbidity is a major public health issue, which challenges health care configured around single diseases.

Aim: To provide an overview of frequent disease combinations of one and two additional chronic diseases and groups among patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) in general practice.

Design And Setting: Medical record data from the Julius General Practitioners' Network of 226 670 patients registered in 2015-2016 in Utrecht, the Netherlands, were collected and examined.

Ethnic differences in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality among patients with breast cancer in the Netherlands: a register-based cohort study.

Objectives: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is of increasing concern among breast cancer survivors. However, evidence on ethnic differences in CVD among women with breast cancer is sparse. We assessed ethnic differences in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality among patients with breast cancer in the Netherlands.

Trends in comorbidity in patients hospitalised for cardiovascular disease.

Background: We determined trends over time in cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular comorbidity in patients hospitalised for cardiovascular disease (CVD).

Methods: The Dutch nationwide hospital register was used to identify patients hospitalised for CVD during 2000-2010. Comorbidity was defined as a previous hospital admission for CVD other than the index CVD, cancer, diabetes, musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders, respiratory disorders, thyroid gland disorders, kidney disorders and dementia in the five years previous to hospital admittance for the index CVD.