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Regardless of the pattern of physical activity, it may reduce risk across a spectrum of cardiovascular diseases, say study authors. So, just do it!

Disparities in emergency routing persisted despite women being acutely sicker than men and living the same distance from a comprehensive stroke center, in a Houston, Tx study.

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Wellbeing is considered a measurable and modifiable community attribute that study authors show is correlated with CV outcomes.

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Higher scores on a healthy lifestyle index were associated with significantly reduced risk of incident CVD among women aged 50-79 years with BMI between 18.5 and 25.0.

ENDO 2023. In older men with hypogonadism and CVD, there was no difference in incident CVD between those taking testosterone and those taking placebo.

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ENDO 2023: Treatment with bempedoic acid was found comparable to statin therapy in an analysis of the CLEAR Outcomes trial based on CTT Collaboration methodology.

Proposed indications for the investigational factor XIa inhibitor are: stroke prevention after acute ischemic stroke or high-risk transient ischemic attack; recent acute coronary syndrome; and atrial fibrillation.

Bayer's investigational FXIa inhibitor is currently being studied in a large-scale phase 3 development program expected to enroll more than 27 000 participants.

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The findings contradict published clinical guidelines that warn against use of estrogen-containing birth control by women who have migraine with aura.

Statin therapy initiated within 1 year of diagnosis of atrial fibrillation reduced the risk of ischemic stroke or systemic embolism by nearly 20%.

Findings also showed that between 1990 and 2019, the global number of ischemic stroke deaths rose from 2 million to 3 million.

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More than two-thirds of patients not receiving OAC were open to beginning treatment but many of their physicians were not, according to a study of PINNACLE Registry participants.

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EHRA 2023: Patients with AF who started statins within a year of diagnosis had reduced risks of stroke and TIA compared with those who did not start statins.

The rule change would provide flexibility in standards that govern specific ingredients used in food production, permitting replacement of regular sodium with less toxic substitutes.

The magnitude of the association with age did not change, however, for other stroke risk factors, including smoking, atrial fibrillation, and LVH, investigators report.

Researchers found that Black and Hispanic Americans were less likely to be treated for certain poststroke complications, such as mood and spasticity, compared to White adults.

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A study of more than 1.5 million women with a history of preeclampsia found up to a 4-fold higher risk of MI and 3-fold increased risk of stroke within 10 years of delivery.

Having both conditions while pregnant in the current study conferred more than double the risk of future CVD vs having either condition alone.

Similar reduction in risk was reported for both lobar and nonlobar intracranial hemorrhage with longer statin treatment associated with greater protection, according to Danish investigators.