Jun 07, 2019

FRIDAY, June 7, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Team-based care emphasizing development of individualized care plans is recommended for management of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and heart failure, accord...

Jun 06, 2019

THURSDAY, June 6, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Fewer U.S. Army personnel have ideal cardiovascular health (CVH) compared with their peers in the civilian population, according to a study published online ...

Jun 05, 2019

WEDNESDAY, June 5, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The burden of new-onset atrial fibrillation is considerable following transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) and surgical aortic valve replacement (...

Jun 05, 2019

WEDNESDAY, June 5, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with psoriatic disease (PsD), carotid atherosclerosis, as detected by ultrasound, predicts future incident cardiovascular events (CVEs), accord...

Jun 05, 2019

WEDNESDAY, June 5, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- For middle-aged adults, counties in states that expanded Medicaid had a significantly smaller increase in cardiovascular mortality rates after expansion com...

Jun 03, 2019

Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Cardiology for May 2019. This roundup includes the latest research news from journal articles, as well as the F...

Jun 03, 2019

MONDAY, June 3, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- People living with HIV (PLWH) have an increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD), a risk that needs appropriate management and treatment, according to a s...

May 31, 2019

FRIDAY, May 31, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Fasting before a cholesterol test is not necessary when evaluating risk for cardiovascular events, according to a study published online May 28 in JAMA Interna...

May 29, 2019

WEDNESDAY, May 29, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Energy drinks prolong the QTc interval and are associated with an increase in blood pressure, according to a study published online May 29 in the Journal of...

May 29, 2019

WEDNESDAY, May 29, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with asymptomatic abdominal aortic aneurysm, long-term overall survival is similar with either endovascular repair or open repair, according to...

May 29, 2019

WEDNESDAY, May 29, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- In healthy adults, there is an increase in dynamic cerebral autoregulation (dCA) six hours after remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) that lasts for at le...

May 28, 2019

TUESDAY, May 28, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Increased body mass index (BMI) in adolescence is associated with an increased risk for cardiomyopathy in adulthood among men, according to a study published ...

May 24, 2019

FRIDAY, May 24, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Use of statins before or after colorectal cancer (CRC) diagnosis is linked to a lower risk for premature death, from either cancer or other causes, according t...

May 24, 2019

FRIDAY, May 24, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Removal of low-density lipoproteins (LDL) by extracorporeal filtration during LDL-apheresis (LDL-A) is associated with a large reduction in mean LDL in acute c...

May 24, 2019

FRIDAY, May 24, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The importance of establishing specialized clinical cardiovascular genetics programs is addressed in an American Heart Association scientific statement publish...

May 23, 2019

THURSDAY, May 23, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Data from a blood donor screening program could represent a novel strategy for identifying familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), according to a study published...

May 23, 2019

THURSDAY, May 23, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- A classification system has been developed for categorizing cardiogenic shock; the consensus statement, endorsed by the American College of Cardiology, Ameri...

May 22, 2019

WEDNESDAY, May 22, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The presence of comorbid depression and/or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with increased participation in cardiac rehabilitation (CR) am...

May 22, 2019

WEDNESDAY, May 22, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- In out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), women are less often resuscitated than men, and they have lower survival rates with resuscitation, according to a ...

May 20, 2019

MONDAY, May 20, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- More than one-third of patients on statin therapy fail to achieve therapeutic thresholds for low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), according to a study ...