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Digital consultations found to improve the rate at which heart failure patients receive optimal medication
Patients with heart failure, a condition affecting more than 60 million worldwide, are four times more likely to receive the optimal combination of medications after 12 weeks of digital consultations. Researchers from five ...
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Single blood test predicts 30-year cardiovascular disease risks for women
Research supported by the National Institutes of Health has found that measuring two types of fat in the bloodstream along with C-reactive protein (CRP), a marker of inflammation, can predict a woman's risk for cardiovascular ...
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Novel low-dose 3-in-1 blood pressure pill significantly outperforms standard care, study shows
New research shows that a treatment plan based on a novel combination of low doses of three anti-hypertensive drugs in a single pill—known as GMRx2—was superior to a high-quality standard care treatment plan at lowering ...
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AI-based tongue imaging could help enable non-invasive detection of coronary artery disease
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the most common cause of illness-based death throughout the world. According to the World Health Organization, CAD causes 17.9 million deaths per year worldwide, nearly one-third of all illness-based ...
Scientists discover a new cardiovascular risk factor and identify a drug able to reduce its effects
To the known risk factors for cardiovascular disease—high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, overweight and obesity, smoking, and physical inactivity—a new one has to be added, clonal hematopoiesis. This condition ...
Aug 30, 2024
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New clues on how the heart makes arteries
A team led by Dr. Elena Cano in the Integrative Vascular Biology Lab of Professor Holger Gerhardt at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin has elucidated the mechanism via which new arteries form in the heart. The finding, published ...
Aug 30, 2024
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Is long-term beta-blocker therapy needed after a heart attack?
The cardiovascular safety of an interrupting beta-blocker could not be shown in comparison to continuation in patients with a history of myocardial infarction (MI) and there was no benefit to the patients' quality of life, ...
Aug 30, 2024
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Vutrisiran offers a new lifeline to patients with progressive heart condition
Vutrisiran significantly improved mortality, cardiovascular events and markers of disease progression in patients with transthyretin amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM), according to late-breaking research presented ...
Aug 30, 2024
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Two-thirds of deaths related to high BMI are due to cardiovascular diseases, says consensus
The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Clinical Consensus Statement on Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease, presented at this year's ESC Congress (London, UK, 30 August to 2 September) summarizes current evidence on the ...
Aug 30, 2024
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Atrial fibrillation guidelines focus on shared care, patient empowerment, comorbidities and more
The 2024 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation, developed in collaboration with the European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), include a number of new approaches ...
Aug 30, 2024
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New guidelines call for intensified BP targets, add blood pressure category to pinpoint heart attack, stroke risk
Updated European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines on the management of elevated blood pressure and hypertension include a new elevated blood pressure category, more ambitious and intensive treatment targets, and for ...
Aug 30, 2024
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Guidelines combine peripheral arterial, aortic diseases, emphasizing whole arterial system interconnectivity
The 2024 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines for the management of peripheral arterial and aortic diseases (PAAD) evaluate these vascular diseases together as part of the same cardiovascular system, appreciating ...
Aug 30, 2024
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New chronic coronary syndrome guidelines expand diagnostic tools and ways to prevent major adverse events
The 2024 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines on the management of chronic coronary syndromes (CCS) include a focus on both larger and smaller blood vessels of the heart; new models to estimate chances of blocked ...
Aug 30, 2024
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Mechanical stress in the borderzone: A new source of cardiac inflammation
Ischemic heart disease is the most common cause of death in the world. It begins with a heart attack, also known as a myocardial infarction (MI), which causes part of the heart to die due to inadequate coronary blood flow. ...
Aug 29, 2024
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Researchers attempt to emulate a clinical trial using data from real patients
Researchers used real-world clinical data to attempt to emulate a randomized controlled trial testing the effectiveness of two blood thinners, apixaban and warfarin, to prevent stroke in patients with non-valvular atrial ...
Aug 29, 2024
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Study: Quitting smoking nearly halves heart attack risk, cutting down does little
According to research presented today at ESC Congress 2024 patients with stable coronary artery disease who quit smoking at any timepoint after their diagnosis reduced their risk of a major event by almost 50%. In contrast, ...
Aug 29, 2024
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Positive experiences can protect children's heart health
Experiencing childhood adversity can harm a child's heart health but positive experiences provide a buffer, according to a new study.
Aug 29, 2024
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Experts call for routine measurement of lipoprotein (a) levels
Heart experts say that everyone should have their levels of lipoprotein (a), or Lp(a), measured routinely at least once in life, following research from one of the most populous EU countries, Poland, that shows how common ...
Aug 29, 2024
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Does low lipoprotein(a) increase the risk of diabetes? New research suggests it does not
New research has shown that, contrary to some previous studies, low levels of lipoprotein (a)—a parcel of fats and protein in the blood—do not cause type 2 diabetes.
Aug 29, 2024
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Women with endometriosis at greater associated risk of heart attack and stroke, research finds
According to research presented at ESC Congress 2024, women with endometriosis have a 20% greater risk of significant cardiac outcomes compared with women without endometriosis.
Aug 29, 2024
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Catching up on sleep on weekends may lower heart disease risk by up to 20%
The demands of the working week, often influenced by school or work schedules, can lead to sleep disruption and deprivation. However, new research presented at ESC Congress 2024 shows that people that "catch up" on their ...
Aug 29, 2024
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Study finds YTHDF1 promotes cardiac fibrosis by enhancing AXL translation
A study in Frontiers of Medicine explores the role of the m6A reader YTHDF1 in cardiac fibrosis, a condition characterized by the excessive accumulation of extracellular matrix proteins, leading to the stiffening of the heart ...
Aug 29, 2024
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Which diabetes meds are best for reducing heart attack and stroke risk?
Almost 500 million adults around the world are living with type 2 diabetes, and over 200 million of those take metformin, an oral medication that reduces blood sugar (glucose) levels. Despite metformin's widespread use, many ...
Aug 28, 2024
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Semaglutide reduces risk for major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with obesity and heart failure
Semaglutide reduces the risk for major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) and composite heart failure end points compared with placebo in patients with overweight or obesity and heart failure, according to a study published ...
Aug 28, 2024
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More people in the UK at risk of hereditary heart disease than previously thought
More people in the UK are at risk of a hereditary form of cardiac amyloidosis, a potentially fatal heart condition, than previously thought, according to a new study led by researchers at UCL (University College London) and ...
Aug 28, 2024
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