Cardiology
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
Conference Coverage
Systolic variability after intracerebral hemorrhage raises odds of death, disability
Major finding: Death or major disability were 41% more likely in patients in the highest quintile of systolic variability 1 day after acute...
News
Later-life PTSD boosts vascular risk
Major finding: Military veterans with late-life posttraumatic stress disorder were 80% more likely to develop new-onset cerebrovascular disease...
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...
News
Childhood glomerular disease associated with adult hypertension
Major finding: Of men with a history of resolved childhood glomerular disease, 13.6% developed hypertension as adults, compared with 7.4% of men...
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
Corporate health care is here
News
Asthma may increase risk of cardiovascular events
Major Finding: Compared with matched controls, patient’s asthma had a significantly higher risk of all cardiovascular disease (HR, 1.36) while...