Lipid Disorders
Conference Coverage
Study links number of live births to future cardiac risk
Conference Coverage
Fruit and vegetable consumption in young women linked to later CVD benefit
Guidelines
Evidence needed on obesity definition, treatment, AACE declares
News
Adding HbA1c doesn’t improve CVD risk assessment
Major finding: HbA1c levels did nothing to help distinguish participants who developed CVD from those who did not, and adding HbA1c values to...
Guidelines
New cholesterol guidelines would add 13 million new statin users
Major finding: The new ACC-AHA cholesterol guidelines could increase number of statin users by 13 million.Data source: Extrapolation of NHANES...
News
Generic atorvastatin recall applies to 90-count bottles of 10-mg tablets
News
RAS blocker prescriptions still lag for ACS patients
Major Finding: Only 85% of ACS patients who met class I criteria and 69% who met class IIa criteria were discharged with an ACE inhibitor or ARB...
News
Obesity prevalence steady between 2003 and 2012
Major Finding: Obesity prevalence was high at 16.9% among children and 34.9% among adults in 2011-2012, which is not significantly different from...
News
FDA to probe saxagliptin’s heart failure risk
News
Intensive BP, lipid control didn’t alter cognitive decline in type 2 diabetes
Major finding: Among patients with type 2 diabetes, cognitive scores did not differ whether they received intensive or standard blood pressure or...
News
Too much dietary sugar raises CVD mortality
Major finding: Compared with adults who consumed less than 10% of their daily calories from sugar, those whose sugar consumption was 17%-21%...