Jun 24, 2026 · 39 min · 11 segments
Cardiologist Dr. Jayne Morgan has a message that cuts through the noise: menopause is not a gynecological footnote. It's a cardiovascular inflection point — and most women don't find out until it's…
Stacey LondonHost
can you tell us like what you think leading up to menopause or the menopause experience that we should be thinking about in terms of cardiovascular health and then post menopause?
How does that change for us? A woman's cardiovascular health, you know, really starts with so many life phases.
And so pregnancy, where pregnancy complications are not benign and the way we usually manage them, I want to say used to, I'm afraid to say used to because I'm hoping we're still not doing it somewhere.
But I would just say the way we were taught to manage pregnancy complications, you know, you have a high risk OB come in to manage the patient, but by and large, it's still managed from an obstetrical and gynecologic lens.
And so the treatment for pregnancy complications like preeclampsia or high blood pressure or eclampsia or even gestational diabetes was actually to deliver the baby because we noted that once the baby was delivered, the mother's indices or parameters kind of gradually came back down to normal.
So we were saying, okay, all we need to do, get the high-risk OB in, keep mom and baby safe, you know, as long as possible through this pregnancy, get her as close to term, deliver the baby, and that's a win.
This woman's risk of heart disease now is going to be twice that of someone else's.
And, you know, it's always surprising how people kind of interpret what you're saying.
I've heard people say very cleverly, well, you know what? I'm going to avoid that.
can you tell us like what you think leading up to menopause or the menopause experience that we should be thinking about in terms of cardiovascular health and then post menopause?
How does that change for us? A woman's cardiovascular health, you know, really starts with so many life phases.
And so pregnancy, where pregnancy complications are not benign and the way we usually manage them, I want to say used to, I'm afraid to say used to because I'm hoping we're still not doing it somewhere.
But I would just say the way we were taught to manage pregnancy complications, you know, you have a high risk OB come in to manage the patient, but by and large, it's still managed from an obstetrical and gynecologic lens.
And so the treatment for pregnancy complications like preeclampsia or high blood pressure or eclampsia or even gestational diabetes was actually to deliver the baby because we noted that once the baby was delivered, the mother's indices or parameters kind of gradually came back down to normal.
So we were saying, okay, all we need to do, get the high-risk OB in, keep mom and baby safe, you know, as long as possible through this pregnancy, get her as close to term, deliver the baby, and that's a win.
This woman's risk of heart disease now is going to be twice that of someone else's.
And, you know, it's always surprising how people kind of interpret what you're saying.
I've heard people say very cleverly, well, you know what? I'm going to avoid that.
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