Cardiology

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..

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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.

Click through this topline on primordial and primary CVD prevention based on the American Society of Preventive Cardiology's clinical practice statement.

Participants with AF who used wearable devices reported higher anxiety levels and increased health care usage than nonusers, according to a new study.

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Adherence to Mediterranean diet-based interventions was associated with reductions in BP, triglycerides, total cholesterol, and LDL-C, as well as increases in HDL-C among children and adolescents.

Hypertension interventions led by pharmacists and community health workers were more successful in lowering BP than those led by nurses and physicians.

Get details on the relationship between obesity and mental health conditions, chronic pain, and hypertension, here.

Adiposity before age 60 to 64 years, beginning as early as age 20 years, was associated with adverse cardiac structure and function not explained by current BMI.

An analysis of 28 000 adults with vascular disease and high-risk diabetes found daily sodium intake of ≥8 g significantly increased risk for AF by 32%.

Findings from the large meta-analysis provide strong support for use of both classes to reduce CV and renal disease in adults with type 2 diabetes.

Continuous statin use among adults aged 75 years and older resulted in a mean relative risk reduction in CVD of 28% without heightened safety concerns, a new study found.

The 11-year-old girl has had a fever up to 102.1°F for 3 days and midsternal nonpleuritic chest pain for 1 day. What tests would you order? Your Dx?

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The risk for developing CVD and T2D was highest among individuals who frequently experienced the behavior in the workplace, according to new study.

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