Several cardiovascular risk factors, such as advanced age and smoking history, are prevalent among lung cancer patients at the time of the diagnosis and increase their risk of future heart disease, ...
Restricting sodium content in processed foods reduced blood pressure (BP) in one study and using a salt substitute reduced risks of stroke recurrence and death in another study, both published Feb. 5 ...
Patients with significant tricuspid regurgitation (TR) at intermediate disease stage were more likely to survive at one year when treated via tricuspid transcatheter edge-to-edge-repair (T-TEER) when ...
Overall cardiovascular hospitalization rates were 1.5-fold higher and income-based disparities were much greater in the U.S. compared with Denmark among patients aged ≥65 years, according to a ...
The Sandra J. Lewis Mid-Career Women's Leadership Institute is a transformative two-year leadership development program designed specifically for mid-career (12- 21 years post fellowship) ...
Additional rhythm-control strategies are frequently continued after index ablation for atrial fibrillation (AFib), according to a study published Feb. 12 in JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology. One in ...
In this week’s View, Dr. Eagle looks at cardiac rehabilitation for people with heart failure. He then discusses managing cardiovascular (CV) disease in cancer survivors who have completed cancer ...
Cardiovascular care delivered by the Veterans Healthcare Administration (VHA) is equivalent or better than that provided by non-VHA community care, according to a State-of-the-Art Review by the ACC ...
In a contemporary population of patients with transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) treated with tafamidis, long-term mortality was relatively high, according to a multicenter study published ...
A novel causal machine learning algorithm can determine which patients with atrial fibrillation (AFib) are more likely to benefit from left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) compared with ...
Studies examining the management of stable patients with an Impella 5.5 on stepdown care, application of innovative technologies to stratify risk and manage heart failure (HF), and more are being ...
In this week’s View, Dr. Eagle looks at tighter blood pressure control in patients who are postpartum. He then discusses beta blocker therapy in patients with Takotsubo syndrome. Finally, Dr. Eagle ...