https://medicalxpress.com/cardiology-news/ en-us Latest medical news and research in Cardiology By analyzing heart rhythm recordings and blood tests, artificial intelligence may accurately flag when a transplant patient's body starts attacking a donated heart, a new study suggests. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-ai-heart-transplant-biopsies.html Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:20:04 EDT news710509561 Our birthdays tell us how long we have lived, but not necessarily how our bodies are aging. Biological age reflects the condition and function of our cells and tissues, shaped by genetics, lifestyle, environment and disease. In people with chronic conditions such as cancer, kidney disease and heart disease, researchers have observed signs of aging that appear earlier than expected for a person's age. This is known as accelerated biological aging. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-biological-aging-clues-term-health.html Tue, 06 Oct 2026 10:40:01 EDT news710499301 For busy health care workers, the electronic health record (EHR) can feel like an endless stream of clicks and prompts. But three Michigan Medicine studies suggest that well-designed alerts for critically ill cardiac patients can change what happens at the bedside, prompting clinicians to make recommended treatment decisions and recognize when patients are deteriorating. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-digital-treatment-decisions-critically-ill.html Tue, 06 Oct 2026 10:20:21 EDT news710500021 For the first time in a human trial, a class of drugs known as sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, already known for their weight-loss and glucose-lowering benefits, has also been shown to reduce inflammatory cells in the blood known to cause cardiovascular disease. The findings were published in Circulation. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-popular-diabetes-drug-shown-inflammation.html Tue, 06 Oct 2026 07:00:05 EDT news710484362 For millions of people, osteoarthritis slowly breaks down the joints, bringing pain, swelling and stiffness that make free movement harder with time. It is largely a condition of age, with 73% of those living with it older than 55. For years, the wear and tear that comes with aging and physical trauma was considered a major driver of the disease. A recent study published in Science, however, points to a metabolic disease that is also highly common among this demographic as a contributing factor in osteoarthritis progression. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-high-blood-pressure-osteoarthritis-joint.html Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:20:12 EDT news710416649 University of Manchester–led researchers have unveiled a roadmap for making computer-generated evidence trustworthy enough to help regulators decide whether medical devices are safe and effective, alongside laboratory and clinical evidence. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-virtual-patients-flag-medical-device.html Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:40:11 EDT news710422622 Providing people with nutritious foods can improve the management of chronic metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and hypertension. However, most studies of "Food Is Medicine" programs have only looked at their short-term impacts—on the scale of weeks to months. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-health-adults-link-based-grocery.html Sun, 04 Oct 2026 15:24:58 EDT news710346259 New research from two William & Mary students has found that the risk of heart attack could be significantly lowered with one simple dietary change: increasing the intake of pulses. But what is a pulse? A food group with diverse options, pulses are edible seeds from plants in the legume family. Some examples include dry beans, chickpeas, lentils and dry peas. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-diet-analysis-links-higher-pulse.html Sun, 04 Oct 2026 15:00:02 EDT news710068855 The angiopoietin-Tie signaling pathway has long been known to be essential for the maturation and maintenance of healthy blood vessels. It stabilizes the vessel wall and regulates vascular growth during development. At the same time, it plays an important role in inflammation, when blood vessels become activated and immune cells leave the bloodstream and enter the surrounding tissue. How the same signaling pathway can control such different biological functions has remained unclear. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-blood-vessels-distinguish-growth-inflammation.html Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:00:06 EDT news710148299 Children born with certain heart defects may face fewer open-heart surgeries, thanks to a new replacement valve that grows with them. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-heart-valve-patient-fda.html Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:20:01 EDT news710158442 Global life expectancy is close to the levels seen before the COVID-19 pandemic, but the outlook for years lived in good health is recovering more slowly, the WHO said Friday. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-life-pre-covid.html Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:40:05 EDT news710151957 More than 2,000 years ago, the Greek mathematician Euclid began his treatise "Optics" with an assumption that now sounds peculiar: visual rays traveled out from the eye toward the objects we see. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-eyes-reveal-heart-health.html Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:20:04 EDT news710158747 Functional decline begins many years before clinically apparent cardiovascular disease (CVD) events, according to a study published online Sept. 23 in JAMA Cardiology. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-functional-decline-cardiovascular-disease-events.html Thu, 01 Oct 2026 20:00:02 EDT news710084201 Within five years of a type 2 diabetes diagnosis, there is a greater risk of developing chronic kidney disease (CKD) first than of developing heart failure first, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, held from Sept. 28 to Oct. 2 in Milan. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-adults-cardiorenal-disease-die-years.html Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:40:04 EDT news710063423 Researchers have discovered a new cell type that may help regulate blood vessel growth in the heart during development and in response to injury, according to a study from Weill Cornell Medicine. Working with zebrafish, they found that the new cell type helps stabilize the vascular network that supplies oxygen to growing cardiac muscle. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-newly-cell-blood-vessel-growth.html Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:20:21 EDT news710089801 A new study has shown that faith leaders would be willing to partner on hypertension screenings and education, despite challenges in past health collaborations. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-faith-leaders-untapped-key-hypertension.html Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:40:01 EDT news710067302 The world's first clinical trial of feijoa has provided preliminary evidence that the fruit reduces blood pressure during weight loss. The unexpected finding was incidental to studying feijoa's potential for preventing type 2 diabetes, says Dr. Ibrahim Mohamed, of the University of Auckland's Human Nutrition Unit. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-clinical-trial-preliminary-evidence-blood.html Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:20:02 EDT news710051702 For adults with an increased cardiovascular risk, elevated C-reactive protein (CRP) levels are associated with an elevated risk of incident heart failure and all-cause mortality, according to a study recently published online in the International Journal of Cardiology. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-elevated-reactive-protein-linked-incident.html Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:20:11 EDT news710000282 New research presented at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Milan, Italy, Sept. 28–Oct. 2, and published in The Lancet shows that, for people with type 2 diabetes at increased cardiovascular risk, a daily orforglipron pill had cardiovascular safety comparable to daily insulin glargine injections while providing greater improvements in weight and blood sugar control. However, gastrointestinal (GI) adverse events were more common with orforglipron, leading to more treatment discontinuations. The study was sponsored by Eli Lilly, the manufacturer of orforglipron. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-daily-pill-alternative-insulin-diabetes.html Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:10:18 EDT news709992181 A new Yale-developed artificial intelligence (AI) platform can detect individuals at risk for amyloid cardiomyopathy, an underdiagnosed cardiac condition, using data from a quick and accessible heart test. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-smartphone-enabled-ai-tool-widely.html Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:20 EDT news709982401 A hospital in Japan has carried out the world's first surgery using sheets of commercially available heart muscle stem cells after the groundbreaking therapy was approved this year, one of the surgeons said. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-japanese-hospital-surgery-heart-muscle.html Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:36:30 EDT news709983337 A healthy, balanced dietary pattern, rather than one focused on individual nutrients or foods, is key to maintaining heart health, according to a scientific statement issued by the American College of Cardiology and published in JACC. Diets should include minimally processed plant-based foods and healthy fats and proteins while limiting foods high in refined starches, added sugars, sodium or unhealthy fats, as well as highly processed foods of poor nutritional quality. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-heart-health-guidance-shifts-focus.html Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:00:20 EDT news709888608 A new report has revealed critical gaps in the care of Australian children with a preventable pediatric disorder that can lead to premature cardiovascular disease (CVD). Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a common genetic disorder that affects how the body processes low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) from birth and significantly increases the risk of heart disease and early heart attacks in adulthood. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-children-heart-disease-gaps.html Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:20:02 EDT news709968061 Which of these two ultrasound images is real? Daniek van Aarle regularly posed that question to audiences of ultrasound researchers at scientific conferences. On Sept. 29, she defended her Ph.D. research on computer-generated, or virtual, ultrasound images that are almost indistinguishable from real ones. One image came from a patient, while the other was generated entirely by a computer. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-simulated-ultrasound-images-cardiovascular-diagnostics.html Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:40:04 EDT news709898975 "Exercise is medicine" is a commonly quoted phrase. But as is so often the case with medications, more is not always better. What counts as too much exercise, and how can it affect the heart? Does running a marathon or competing in an Ironman triathlon boost your health, or might it do the opposite? The development of the Micro-Athlete mini-heart (a heart-on-a-chip that mimics the human heart) is giving researchers valuable new insights into cardiovascular disease. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-good-mini-heart-uncovering.html Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:00:01 EDT news709902467 Reductions in blood pressure may be maintained over the short term with just one or two sessions of isometric exercise training a week, research published online in the journal BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine suggests. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-weekly-session-isometric-blood-pressure.html Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:30:06 EDT news709896242 Conventional AI models in medicine are usually trained for a single, narrowly defined task, such as detecting a specific cardiac arrhythmia. So-called foundation models take a different approach: Much like a language model such as ChatGPT develops a comprehensive understanding of text, an ECG foundation model learns to "understand" the heart signal in all its diversity. It can then apply that knowledge to many medical questions—including those for which only limited specific training data is available. This is a decisive advantage, especially in medicine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-high-ai-electrocardiogram-analysis-medical.html Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:40:05 EDT news709912441 The adult human heart is a reliable, resilient engine fueling our everyday lives while also being responsive enough to supercharge a Usain Bolt sprint or sustain a three-week bike race in the French Alps and Pyrenees. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-heart-cell-metabolism.html Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:20:25 EDT news709897856 Atherosclerosis develops when deposits known as plaques build up in the walls of blood vessels over many years. These plaques are particularly dangerous when they become unstable and rupture: Blood clots can form, blocking blood vessels and potentially causing a heart attack or stroke. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-gene-transcription-therapeutic-vascular-disease.html Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:20:02 EDT news709888777 At a press conference at the EASD Annual Meeting in Milan, organized by the European Diabetes Forum (EUDF), three leading European cardiometabolic scientific associations—the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) and the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO)—joined European Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare Olivér Várhelyi to welcome the launch of the first EU Screening Week. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-eu-screening-week-heart-diabetes.html Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:50:01 EDT news709888686