Aug 22, 2019

THURSDAY, Aug. 22, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with heart failure, type 2 diabetes is associated with structural changes in the heart, poorer quality of life, and increased mortality, accord...

Aug 22, 2019

THURSDAY, Aug. 22, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Increasing blood pressure medications at hospital discharge for elderly patients hospitalized with noncardiac conditions does not improve long-term outcomes...

Aug 22, 2019

THURSDAY, Aug. 22, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Prescription size is associated with increased new persistent opioid use among patients after cardiothoracic surgery, according to a study published online ...

Aug 22, 2019

THURSDAY, Aug. 22, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- For middle-aged and older adults, more physical activity at any intensity and less sedentary time are associated with a reduced risk for premature mortality...

Aug 21, 2019

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 21, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Quitting smoking is associated with reduced rates of incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) within five years compared with current smoking, although the ri...

Aug 21, 2019

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 21, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- An infusion of serelaxin does not result in a lower incidence of death from cardiovascular causes or worsening of heart failure among patients hospitalized...

Aug 20, 2019

TUESDAY, Aug. 20, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- In healthy nonsmokers, inhaling nicotine-free electronic cigarette aerosol has a transient impact on endothelial function, according to a study published onl...

Aug 20, 2019

TUESDAY, Aug. 20, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Lipophilic statin use is associated with significantly reduced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) incidence and mortality in adults with chronic viral hepatitis,...

Aug 19, 2019

MONDAY, Aug. 19, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Among African-Americans, higher daytime and nighttime systolic blood pressure (SBP) is associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) even...

Aug 19, 2019

MONDAY, Aug. 19, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Genetic liability to insomnia is associated with increased odds of major cardiovascular diseases, according to a research letter published online Aug. 19 in C...

Aug 16, 2019

FRIDAY, Aug. 16, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Four cases of severe lung injury possibly linked with vaping in Minnesota are similar to dozens of cases in Wisconsin and Illinois. The patients had symptoms ...

Aug 16, 2019

FRIDAY, Aug. 16, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Long-term nursing home residents with hypertension do not experience significant benefits from more intensive antihypertensive treatment, according to a study...

Aug 15, 2019

THURSDAY, Aug. 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Nonpersistence and low adherence are common among younger adults initiating antihypertensive medications and have not improved over time, according to a stu...

Aug 14, 2019

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 14, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Use of antiarrhythmic drugs (AADs) is associated with a higher risk for fall-related injuries and syncope among older patients with atrial fibrillation (AF...

Aug 14, 2019

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 14, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Radial artery catheterization is an alternative approach to performing a wide range of neuroendovascular procedures and has a low rate of complications, ac...

Aug 13, 2019

TUESDAY, Aug. 13, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- High-income countries have experienced a recent slowing in the cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality decline, according to a study published online Aug. 5 i...

Aug 13, 2019

TUESDAY, Aug. 13, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Elderly prostate cancer patients with preexisting cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) using abiraterone acetate (AA) or enzalutamide (ENZ) have higher short-term ...

Aug 13, 2019

TUESDAY, Aug. 13, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The risk for subsequent dementia is significantly increased for blood pressure patterns of midlife and late-life hypertension as well as midlife hypertension...

Aug 09, 2019

While hypertension is a known risk factor for stroke, less is known about the association of late-life blood pressure (BP)—in particular change in BP— with brain disease, including the main underl...

Aug 09, 2019

FRIDAY, Aug. 9, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Using the true number of central lines as the denominator improves methods of determining central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) rates, accordi...