Fatal heart disease has plummeted since 1990, but progress has stalled
After decades of decline, fatal coronary heart disease may rise again unless Americans modify three major risk factors: smoking, drinking, and obesity.
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After decades of decline, fatal coronary heart disease may rise again unless Americans modify three major risk factors: smoking, drinking, and obesity.
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Cardiothoracic surgeon Francis Sutter sits in a corner of a darkened operating room at Lankenau Medical Center, his head buried in what looks like a large virtual-reality headset.
Jul 27, 2023
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For millions of Americans who have heart surgery or experience cardiovascular complications, like heart attack or heart failure, they may be encouraged to participate in cardiac rehabilitation. The medically supervised program ...
Jul 19, 2023
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Doctors in Seattle are reporting a history-making case in which a patient received two donor organs, a liver and a heart, to prevent the extreme likelihood that her body would reject a donor heart transplanted alone. In this ...
Jul 13, 2023
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Over the past decade, researchers have been developing polygenic scores—calculations of a person's likelihood of getting a disease based on the millions of small genetic differences across their genome. The accuracy of ...
Jul 7, 2023
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A novel molecular pathway to explain how a mutation in the gene ACTA2 can cause individuals in their 30s—with normal cholesterol levels and no other risk factors—to develop coronary artery disease has been identified, ...
Jul 7, 2023
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Loneliness is a bigger risk factor for heart disease in patients with diabetes than diet, exercise, smoking and depression, according to research published June 29 in the European Heart Journal,.
Jun 29, 2023
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Colchicine, a widely available gout medication, has received FDA approval to be used in low dose to prevent cardiovascular events in patients with proven coronary disease.
Jun 29, 2023
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People genetically predisposed to have high LDL cholesterol are at an increased risk for coronary heart disease even if their cholesterol levels are only modestly elevated, according to a recent study published in Circulation.
Jun 22, 2023
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Research led by the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, New Hampshire, has looked into mortality estimates due to various causes when accounting for smoking status.