Abstract:Background: Patients with cancer are predisposed to develop CVD. This real-world, population-based study aimed to assess the factors related with new onset CVD in cancer survivors.
Methods:We identified patients with stage I-III solid organ cancer in a large Canadian province from 2004 to 2017. Patients with a CVD prior to their cancer diagnosis were excluded. We linked administrative data sources to identify new onset CVD (cardiac arrhythmias, cerebrovascular accidents [CVAs], congestive heart failure [CHF], … Show more
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