Dutch cardio‐oncology cohort: Incident cardiovascular disease predisposes to a higher cancer mortality rate

Abstract Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer are the two leading causes of death worldwide. Given their high prevalence, it is important to understand the disease burden of cancer mortality in CVD patients. Objective We aimed to evaluate whether patients with incident CVD have a higher risk of malignancy‐related mortality, compared to the general population without CVD. Methods We performed a national population‐based cohort study selecting patients with incident CVD in the Netherlands between 01 April 2000 and 31 December 2005. A reference cohort was selected from the Dutch pop... Mehr ...