Women's Heart and Vascular

Patients in this program benefit from a collaboration between experts in diabetes, menopause, nutrition, exercise physiology, smoking cessation, sleep apnea, depression and anxiety.

The program also focuses on clinical research in collaboration with Yale’s Women’s Health Research Center to advance the care of women with heart disease.

Cardiovascular Conditions We Treat

Our specialists use innovative technologies and techniques to diagnose and treat patients with a host of cardiovascular conditions and issues, including:

• Autoimmune disease
• Cardiovascular complications during pregnancy
• Congenital heart disease and pregnancy
• Coronary microvascular dysfunction
• Diabetes
• Familial hypercholesterolemia
• Pulmonary hypertension
• Stress-induced cardiomyopathies

Personalized Risk Assessment and Diagnostic Evaluation

New patients will complete a questionnaire at their first appointment to identify individual risk factors and symptoms for heart disease. This questionnaire will become the basis of the initial evaluation by the cardiologist, who will review risk factors, discuss symptoms, and determine abnormalities on physical exam and electrocardiogram.

Then, an individualized care plan will be made, which may include:

• Laboratory testing, including lipid panel and blood glucose. Testing may also include hemoglobin A1C, cardio CRP, and other labs determined to be appropriate, such as thyroid or hormone testing.
• Appropriate diagnostic testing.
• Appropriate referral to an additional specialist, including a diabetes or menopause expert, nutritionist, exercise physiologist, smoking cessation expert, pulmonologist, or mental health counselor.
• Treatment of risk factors and/or cardiac disease with follow-up appointments.