Oct 01, 2015

The American Heart Association (AHA) has implemented 2020 goals for promiting cardiovascular health in a campaign called Life’s Simple 7. These goals are based on the current understanding of modifi...

Sep 30, 2015

New research was presented at HFSA 2015, the annual scientific meeting of the Heart Failure Society of America, from September 26 to 29 in Washington, DC. The features below highlight some of the stud...

Sep 21, 2015

Study results indicate that patients with or at risk for cardiomyopathy appear to experience less anxiety when they the internet as a source of health information. Among the study patients, 85% used t...

Sep 21, 2015

About 10% of patients who are eligible to receive cardiac rehabilitation (CR) at discharge following hospitalization for heart failure actually follow through with CR, according to a large study. The ...

Sep 21, 2015

A Korean research team suggests that early aortic valve replacement (AVR) and watchful observation appear to have similar survival rates in symptomatic patients with normal flow, low-gradient severe a...

Sep 21, 2015

Published studies show that about 9% of men and 7% of women who fall in the young adult age range—defined as ages 18 to 39—have hypertension. “Although young adults have lower rates of hypertens...

Sep 21, 2015

Hybrid coronary revascularization (HCR)—which combines minimally invasive left internal mammary artery to left anterior descending bypass with PCI of non-left anterior descending vessels—appears t...

Sep 21, 2015

Delays in epinephrine administration appear to decrease survival and worsen outcomes among children with in-hospital cardiac arrest who experience an initial non-shockable rhythm, according to a study...

Sep 21, 2015

High school students who have used electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) appear to be more likely to report using combustible tobacco over the next year when compared with non-users of e-cigarettes. St...

Sep 15, 2015

The prevalence of diabetes appears to have increased in the United States and in all subgroups of Americans evaluated in a study from 1988-1994 to 2011-2012. During the study period, the overall preva...

Sep 11, 2015

A statewide educational intervention on resuscitation training appears to have increased the proportion of patients who received bystander-initiated CPR and defibrillation by first responders. The com...

Sep 11, 2015

Left ventriculography became the gold standard for assessing left ventricle function decades ago, but newer imaging technologies like cardiac MRI, echocardiography, and cardiac CT angiography have led...

Sep 11, 2015

Results of a large study indicate that nearly one-third of patients are no longer persistent with prescribed medications when assessed at 6 months after an acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The most ...

Sep 11, 2015

Among older patients with non-STEMI, generic medications do not appear to increase adherence to statins at 1 year after hospital discharge when compared with brand name drugs. Researchers found that b...

Sep 11, 2015

Women and African-American patients appear to lose more years of life, on average, after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) than men or Caucasian patients, according to researchers from Harvard and Yal...

Sep 11, 2015

Study results suggest that surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) and transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) appears to have comparable short-term outcomes. The all-cause mortali...

Sep 11, 2015

Swedish research suggests that mass screening for atrial fibrillation atrial fibrillation in patients aged 75 or 76 appears to identify a significant percentage of those with untreated atrial fibrilla...

Sep 11, 2015

Study results suggest that the current 10-year atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk threshold (7.5%) used in the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association cholesterol tr...

Sep 07, 2015

In 2014, the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) released an updated guideline on perioperative cardiovascular evaluation and management of patients undergoing non-...

Sep 03, 2015

Swedish research suggests that mass screening for atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients aged 75 or 76 appears to identify a significant percentage of those with untreated AF. Over 28 months, previously...