Cardiology

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How are you managing your patients with resistant or refractory hypertension? How do your strategies align with current guidelines? Try these 9 questions and find out.

Hypertension that is resistant or refractory to treatment increases the risk of comorbidity and cardiovascular risk. Click through this at-a-glance review of key issues.

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New data shows that favorable CV health in the first trimester is associated with a 35% to 62% lower risk of HDP regardless of level of genetic risk.

Unawareness was highest among the youngest adults, aged 18 to 44 years, an age range where CV health should be optimized to avoid later morbidity, researchers wrote.

Approximately 10.5 million US adults, or 5% of the population, have the atrial fibrillation, according to new prevalence estimates.

Which state retains the most medical residents? Or has the lowest cancer rate? Answers and more insights from a nationwide analysis, here.

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Your daily dose of the clinical news you may have missed.

ESC 2024: Findings from the FINEARTS-HF clinical trial provide the first definite evidence that an MRA can be beneficial in patients with HFmrEF/HFpEF.

ESC 2024: Cannabis, opioid, and MDMA use were most strongly tied to cardiovascular event risk, according to a new study.

Your daily dose of the clinical news you may have missed.

Your daily dose of the clinical news you may have missed.

In secondary CVD prevention, low/moderate-dose statins plus ezetimibe were superior to high-dose statin for reducing biomarkers, myalgias but did not reduce MACE.

The sGC activator represents a novel approach to modulating the nitric oxide-soluble sGC-cyclic guanosine monophosphate pathway.

Anila Chadha, MD, talks to Patient Care about how antiobesity medications can aid in reducing CVD risk in patients with obesity.

Anila Chadha, MD, highlights key preventive strategies to reduce CVD risk in patients with obesity and how to tailor them to address individual patient needs.

White coat and masked hypertension can be elusive and dangerous. Click through a topline look at recommendations from the 2017 ACC/AHA hypertension guidelines.

Conversely, greater intake of animal-based fat was associated with an increased risk of overall and CVD mortality, authors reported.

No health system across the 28 analyzed in this study demonstrated appropriate SGLT2i prescribing for more than 25% of eligible individuals.

In a head-to-head real world study, tirzepatide compared with semaglutide resulted in 42%, 20%, and 46% reduced risks for all-cause mortality and major adverse CV and renal events, respectively.

Findings from a new study suggest high-intensity interval training may be more effective in improving individuals’ cardiorespiratory fitness poststroke than moderate-intensity continuous training.

Finerenone treatment achieved a statistically significant reduction in a composite endpoint of CV death and HF events in a population not limited to CKD in T2D, Bayer announced.

Tirzepatide reduced the risk of severe heart failure outcomes by 38% and drove weight loss of 15.7% in adults with HFpEF and obesity, with and without T2D..

Your daily dose of the clinical news you may have missed.

Your daily dose of the clinical news you may have missed.

Your daily dose of the clinical news you may have missed.

Based on guidance from the American Society of Preventive Cardiology, this topline summarizes risk factors and interventions to reduce the risk of major adverse CV events.

Providing postpartum scheduling support increased the odds of a primary care visit within 4 months of childbirth among women with chronic disease and improved monitoring.