Sep 03, 2015

Mortality rates per 1,000 person-years appear to be similar among patients with diabetes (15.6), stroke (16.1), or myocardial infarction (16.8), according to a large study. The mortality rate per 1,00...

Sep 03, 2015

The use of percutaneous ventricular assist devices (PVADs) appears to have increased substantially in recent years in the United States, according to a study. This increase appears to be accompanied b...

Sep 03, 2015

Study investigators suggest that incident stroke appears to be associated with an acute decline in cognitive function. Incident stroke also appears to accelerate cognitive decline over 6 years. The st...

Sep 03, 2015

When managing patients with a first episode of unprovoked pulmonary embolism (PE), a study has found that adding 18 months of warfarin after patients have already received 6 months of anticoagulation ...

Sep 01, 2015

Increased interleukin-10 (IL-10) appears to cause severe HDL cholesterol deficiency and raises triglyceride levels, according to a study. Results of the study suggest that IL-10 is a potent modulator ...

Sep 01, 2015

A small study has found that adding 100 grams of almonds daily to chronic statin therapy for 4 weeks appears to significantly reduced non–HDL cholesterol levels. Researchers randomized patients re...

Sep 01, 2015

Short-term increases in BMI following the initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) appear to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes in patients with HIV, according to a study...

Sep 01, 2015

Additional attention to traditional cardiovascular (CV) risk factors could yield further substantive reductions in CV events and mortality in adults with diabetes, according to a nationwide analysis. ...

Aug 24, 2015

Cardiac biomarkers have emerged as a powerful tool to rapidly detect an acute coronary syndrome (ACS), but these biomarkers can also be detected in various other illnesses (eg, false-positive result)....

Aug 24, 2015

Studies have shown that the incidence and prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) increases as people age. Fortunately, awareness of AF and its associated risk of thromboembolism and stroke have increa...

Aug 24, 2015

For patients with stable coronary disease, studies have shown that PCI does not reduce the risk for death or myocardial infarction (MI), even when it is added to optimal medical therapy (OMT). “Stud...

Aug 24, 2015

Healthy People 2020 is a national initiative that was launched in 2010 and outlines 10-year goals and objectives for health promotion and disease prevention. Reducing the burden of cardiovascular dise...

Aug 24, 2015

Recently, the recently American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) updated their cholesterol guidelines, which shifted away from a focus on treating to target LDL cho...

Aug 24, 2015

The Foundation of the National Lipid Association, the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association, and Mended Hearts recently launched Cholesterol Counts, a program designed to accumulate internet-ba...

Aug 12, 2015

Aggressive risk factor management appears to improve the long-term success of atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation, according to results of an Australian study. When compared with controls, patients who ...

Aug 12, 2015

Patients aged 65 and older appear to present with more severe pulmonary embolisms and have a higher mortality rate when compared with younger individuals, according to an observational cohort study. H...

Aug 12, 2015

Findings from a large study indicate that hypertensive recidivism appears to occur in nearly 25% of patients with previously well-controlled blood pressure. Patients with diabetes, high normal baselin...

Aug 12, 2015

Patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) appear to have suboptimal control of heart attack risk factors. Study investigators found the following among patients presenting with AMI: Risk ...

Aug 12, 2015

Applying pediatric guidelines for lipid levels—as opposed to adult guidelines—could result more than 400,000 additional adolescents and young adults receiving statins, according to a study. Resear...

Aug 12, 2015

Less than 10% of eligible older patients with low ejection fraction following acute myocardial infarction (AMI) appear to receive an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD), according to a study....