Cardiology General
Oct 30, 2019
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- From 2011 to 2017, the age-adjusted mortality rate decreased for heart disease, but the number of heart disease deaths increased, according to a study publ...
Oct 30, 2019
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Many patients take over-the-counter (OTC) products with potentially serious interactions with the direct-acting oral anticoagulant apixaban, according to r...
Oct 30, 2019
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The FIND FH model can successfully identify individuals with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) from a scan of large, diverse health care encounter databas...
Oct 29, 2019
TUESDAY, Oct. 29, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Black and Latinx patients are less likely than white patients to be admitted to cardiology for heart failure care, according to a study published online Oct....
Oct 22, 2019
TUESDAY, Oct. 22, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Periodontitis (PD) is a possible risk factor for hypertension, according to a review published online Sept. 24 in Cardiovascular Research. Eva Muñoz ...
Oct 21, 2019
MONDAY, Oct. 21, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Initiating public reporting was associated with a significant decrease in valve surgery for all infective endocarditis (IE) cases, regardless of injection dru...
Oct 21, 2019
MONDAY, Oct. 21, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- American Indians have a higher risk for incident atrial fibrillation (AF) compared with all other racial and ethnic groups, according to a study published onl...
Oct 18, 2019
FRIDAY, Oct. 18, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Exposure to secondhand smoking is associated with choroidal thinning among children aged 6 to 8 years, according to a study published online Oct. 17 in JAMA O...
Oct 18, 2019
FRIDAY, Oct. 18, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- For Asian patients with heart failure, those who are lean-fat with a high waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) and low body mass index (BMI) have the worst outcomes, ...
Oct 17, 2019
THURSDAY, Oct. 17, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Moderate depression, anxiety, and stress affect adherence to cardiac rehabilitation, according to a study published online Oct. 9 in the European Journal of...
Oct 17, 2019
THURSDAY, Oct. 17, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Juul, which makes the top-selling brand of electronic cigarettes in the United States, said Thursday it will no longer sell fruit or dessert flavors of its ...
Oct 16, 2019
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 16, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- African-Americans with higher perceived stress over time may be at increased risk for developing hypertension, according to a study published online Oct. 1...
Oct 16, 2019
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 16, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Initiation of statin therapy during childhood in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia slows the progression of carotid intima-media thickness and re...
Oct 16, 2019
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 16, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- In patients who truly have proton pump inhibitor (PPI)-refractory heartburn, including those with reflux hypersensitivity, surgery may be the best treatmen...
Oct 15, 2019
TUESDAY, Oct. 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- In thrombotic antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APS), rivaroxaban is not noninferior to dose-adjusted vitamin K antagonists (VKAs), according to a study pu...
Oct 15, 2019
TUESDAY, Oct. 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- In an early-release Oct. 11 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the CDC presents interim guid...
Oct 14, 2019
Data indicate that cardiovascular disease (CVD) is now among the leading causes of death among HIV-positive adults. “This increased CVD risk is not accounted for by traditional CVD or HIV-specific f...
Oct 11, 2019
FRIDAY, Oct. 11, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Ibrutinib is associated with an increased risk for new or worsened hypertension in patients treated for B-cell malignancies, according to a study published on...
Oct 11, 2019
FRIDAY, Oct. 11, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The estimated pooled prevalence of hypertension in children is 4 percent, according to a review published online Oct. 7 in JAMA Pediatrics. Peige Song, Ph.D....
Oct 10, 2019
“The assumption by many in medicine has been that brain damage manifests over years of evident blood pressure (BP) elevation in older people,” says H. Lina Schaare, PhD-candidate. “But asymptoma...