Jan 07, 2020

Agency says it is still too early to know how severe this year's flu season will be. MONDAY, Dec. 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Flu continues to spread throughout the United States and has reached...

Jan 01, 2020

In Annals of Internal Medicine, my colleagues and I published a systematic review and meta-analysis evaluating the cardiovascular risks of white coat hypertension (WCH, ie elevated office blood pressu...

Dec 26, 2019

THURSDAY, Dec. 26, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first generics of Eliquis (apixaban) tablets, the agency announced Monday. The generic applica...

Dec 23, 2019

Mortality rates significantly higher for territory-dwelling Hispanic and Asian dialysis patients THURSDAY, Dec. 19, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- For patients undergoing dialysis in the U.S. territories...

Dec 19, 2019

A study has found that an updated risk calculator is a better discriminator of risk than other risk assessment strategies for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension.   When manag...

Dec 16, 2019

Although the Affordable Care Act led to the largest ever expansion of Medicaid, several states decided not to expand eligibility due to a US Supreme Court Decision, explains Sameed Ahmed M. Khatana, M...

Dec 11, 2019

“Unfortunately, among patients with breast cancer, healthy survivorship can be impacted by late side effects to treatment and the cancer itself, especially cardiovascular side effects,” says Maria...

Dec 05, 2019

Among patients aged 80 or older, high adherence to statins after a myocardial infarction appears to be associated with improved survival. Promoting medication adherence interventions to individuals in...

Dec 05, 2019

THURSDAY, Dec. 5, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Children of mothers with diabetes have increased rates of early-onset cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to a study published online Dec. 4 in The BMJ. ...

Dec 04, 2019

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 4, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Mobile stroke unit (MSU) care is associated with quicker time to thrombolysis in acute ischemic stroke compared with conventional ambulance care in a densel...

Dec 02, 2019

MONDAY, Dec. 2, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Improved oral hygiene care is associated with a reduced risk for atrial fibrillation and heart failure, according to a study published online Dec. 1 in the Eur...

Dec 02, 2019

MONDAY, Dec. 2, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Current statin use is inversely associated with the risk for lethal prostate cancer, according to a study published online Nov. 21 in Clinical Cancer Research....

Dec 02, 2019

MONDAY, Dec. 2, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Obesity may cause a differential response to antiarrhythmic drugs (AADs) used to suppress atrial fibrillation (AF), according to a study published online Nov. ...

Nov 27, 2019

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 27, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- More than 12 percent of patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) report nonadherence to medications due to costs, according to a study ...

Nov 27, 2019

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 27, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Change in the U.S. allocation system for donor hearts has reduced waitlist mortality, but posttransplantation outcomes may have been worsened, according to...

Nov 26, 2019

TUESDAY, Nov. 26, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Large variation in blood pressure is associated with an increased long-term risk for dementia, according to a study published online Nov. 12 in PLOS Medicine...

Nov 26, 2019

TUESDAY, Nov. 26, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Recovery from metabolic syndrome (MetS) is associated with a decreased risk for major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), while increased risk is seen in a...

Nov 25, 2019

MONDAY, Nov. 25, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Using statins for as short a time as three months can put patients at risk for developing diabetes and skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs), according to a...

Nov 25, 2019

MONDAY, Nov. 25, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Cancer patients have elevated cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality risk, with the highest risk seen in the first year after cancer diagnosis, according to a...

Nov 22, 2019

FRIDAY, Nov. 22, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Hypertension during pregnancy heightens women's cardiovascular risk during middle age, according to a study published online Nov. 11 in the Journal of the Ame...