Cardiology
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Finerenone scores second pivotal-trial success in patients with diabetic kidney disease
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Possible obesity effect detected in cancer death rates
As with heart disease, declines in mortality for some cancers seem to be affected by the obesity epidemic.
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A simple new definition for ‘metabolically healthy obesity’?
‘Our new definition may be important not only to stratify risk of mortality in people with obesity, but also in people with overweight and normal...
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Nutritional support may be lifesaving in heart failure
Patients with high-risk chronic heart failure given individualized nutritional support in-hospital had lower mortality following discharge, a new...
Conference Coverage
Hypertension worsened by commonly used prescription meds
Close to 20% of U.S. adults with hypertension are on a prescription drug, such as NSAIDs, known to raise blood pressure, creating an opportunity...
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Exercise plus liraglutide better for maintaining weight loss than either strategy alone
Study findings also support the feasibility of moderate to vigorous exercise interventions even in individuals with obesity who had a very low...
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Increasing salt intake proves beneficial in POTS
For patients with postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS), dietary sodium intake can be increased more confidently, suggests the first study to yield...
Guidelines
AHA issues new advice on managing stage 1 hypertension
If lifestyle changes alone fail to lower slightly elevated blood pressure within 6 months, consider adding medication, the American Heart...
Conference Coverage
Modest clinical gain for AF screening of asymptomatic elderly: STROKESTOP
Literally all known 75- and 76-year-olds in two Swedish regions were included, whether or not they were screened by mobile ECG recorder. But does...
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Being overweight ups risk of severe COVID-19 in hospital
This research “adds to the known data on the associations between obesity and severe COVID-19 disease and extends these findings” to patients who...
Guidelines
USPSTF reaffirms advice to screen all adults for hypertension
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force continues to recommend screening adults for hypertension, given “convincing” evidence of benefit and few...